A new user in need of help

[Furious Stormrage]

I normally use XP but an article i saw once about running Linux from a CD. There were few things i didn't like which was the desktop (it looked ugly but i could live with it) and the fact that my internet didn't work. Can anyone help me? Oh and i also would like to know how to make a partion so i can have linux and XP on my Hard drive without splashing money for a new pc.

Thanks

[Harry Kuhman]

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16574