I am having trouble deciding whether to use the bf24 flavor of debian with the 2.4.20 kernel as opposed to the standard 2.2 installation. I thought that the 2.4.2 kernel might be better due to the very new hardware that I have in this machine (running Intel D845PEBT2 board with 333 ddr and SATA). I'm fairly new at this so I want to do it right. My past experience is doing a Gentoo install with a friend of mine (however, he did most of the work). Any suggestions?

I have my machine sitting at the boot screen right now waiting for some sweet OS lovin.

I'm pretty much ok I think, minus this issue and some X/Kde configuration questions i have had before.

Thanks

go with the the 2.4 kernel
I wasn't able to find anything specific that's changed, but I believe that things like USB support have improved. basically, things just keep getting better

It's actually a 2.4.18 by default so pick that.
If you choose the 2.2 you'll have ext2 partitions, 2.4 provides ext3

I appreciate your help! I installed bf24 w/ ext3 file systems and everything has been going great up until finding my mouse with X.