My niece age 17 has a pentium II system, 256 RAM, with a single 17 gig hard drive (4 gig used), presently running windows XP and ADSL internet. She would like to try linux - KDE (she is impressed with the linux-KDE applications on my system) and does NOT have my limitation that I must use RH 7.1 distro. She prefers to use dual-boot until she gets used to linux software. She will use office software, music, multimedia and internet applications etc. She has almost no linux experience.
What is the best way to create a linux partition on the hard drive? Does fips work with windows XP? What distro would people recommend? I can assist the installation, but I really only have experience with RH distributions (from 5 through 7.1).
Greg