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thanks russelr124234 - Mandrake 10 is supposed to be about the easiest, give or take, but have no personal experience with anything else, so don't hold me to it. &nbsp;Good Luck.<br />
There was one more bug in Mandrake 10 install. &nbsp;Don't remember details now, but a problem with boot screen such that couldn't boot into xp if you were running a fat32 drive. If you have that problem, go into BIOS and set the hard drive to LBA. &nbsp;That fixed mine. &nbsp;Good Luck.
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thanks russelr124234 - Mandrake 10 is supposed to be about the easiest, give or take, but have no personal experience with anything else, so don't hold me to it.  Good Luck.
There was one more bug in Mandrake 10 install.  Don't remember details now, but a problem with boot screen such that couldn't boot into xp if you were running a fat32 drive. If you have that problem, go into BIOS and set the hard drive to LBA.  That fixed mine.  Good Luck.

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It must be free! &nbsp;Thanks!
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Free operating system most like windows XP?

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