Well thanks for all the encouragement guys, I feel much more comfortable now. I did notice the cheat’s thing on the DVD (I got the DVD with Linux Magazine) so thanks for pointing out what it is. I'm going to go with the poor-mans-install and see how it goes.

The main reason I want Linux is that I do a lot of programming in PHP and have my sites on Linux. I know the bare minimum to get my sites running on it, but would like to set-up a test environment and also learn a bit more about the operating system. I just hope after I get it running I can install things like PHP and MySQL with little bother *fingers crossed*.

Thanks again, and a special thanks to JD for spending the time to collate your other posts

No doubt I will be back with more problems soon

Cheers,
Stuart