If you have NTFS windows and it is one giant partition then use SuSe and resize the NTFS partition. It doens't destroy your data. Then make the new unallocated space a FAT32 or vfat (same thing) partition, copy all your music from windows to that partition and install w/e distro you want (you could use SuSe just for resizing NTFS if you want). If you want a cheap way to get SuSe (as it has no ISO images) then either do an FTP install or order it from a site like amazon.com for about 8 bucks like i did. good luck. SuSe has media players too i believe.

PS make sure it is SuSe 9.0 Pro

Nice thread with some good points but the title of the topic drags things down. This is a good forum from what I've seen but I'd ask a moderator to delete that unnecessary part of the topic's title. Just my 2 cents.

Just burn the mp3s on cds before you burn the windoze out of your computer hd.

I've emailed Jeremy to ask him to edit the title - at the moment only he can do this.

suse is most userfriendly os, but it has very heavy to install, in text mode default text size is damn small
if u r using ubuntu series(edubuntu, or ubuntu) its fast booting ,new gnome ,new s/w s( if u have net connection ,u can install additional packages), in new ubuntu , very simple to install, only 4/5 steps
finally redhat family( rhel *,fedora core 6),it is most installed linux distribution in the world,so millions of users satisfaction is the real advantage of redhat families

Forgot to check the dates on your search, huh?...

Its ok, we've all done it...

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