considering ur knowledge of linux is fairly less.. I suggest you try Mandrake Linux the installation is fairly simple it also features an "easy-to-use" graphical partitioning system in the installer which guesses the windows drive-letters so you shouldn't face any problems pin-pointing your F: drive, if you still feel scared about partitioning boot the cd into expert mode and install linux on a "loopback" filesystem which will create a large file on your computer which will act as a linux filesystem so you can get away with partitioning bit... i found some problems with mandrake 9.1 install in expert mode.. so i suggest you stick with 9.0 if u wanna install it on loopback-fs
Regards Pranav
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