Installing should not be too scary or such a big problem, especially as you have a new drive to put linux onto, there is very very little chance of dataloss etc. what OS are you going to dual boot Linux with? Windows NT/2000/9x?
Win98se
Also if you do find it scary can you not make one of the Alug meetings where
somebody will quite happily install (well try ;)) linux for you... If not where in the world are you as somebody could perhaps come and help you in person. (btw i just had a thought, could we not offer some kind of telephone
helpline to people who are stuck 50% of the way through an install?)
Appreciate the thought, don't feel quite so nervous now. Was mainly
worried about doing something wrong and then not having ANY puter to work with until I'd figured it out. And, btw, I'm near Yarmouth :-)