I am looking to install FC2 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 (to dual boot w/ WinXP). I am familiar with various Un*x variants (having used NeXTSTEP/Redhat via shell accounts, and now MacOSX), and have installed FreeBSD before, but decided that it was not what I was looking for with regard to ease of setup/configuration. Someone suggested FC2, and I was wondering if you thought that the install/config was something that a newbie-Linux-installer could handle, or if there was another distro that you'd recommend instead? I see from the archives that others have installed on this hardware, so I know it can be done. I guess I am looking for something like a "difficulty gauge" - how easy/difficult would it be to do this (assuming that WinXP is already installed on a separate partition, and FC2 would be installed into a 2nd partition (about 15gb m/l). Thanks for any suggestions TjL