reformat Windows! Install which Linux?

redhat 9.0.

Yes, I still have the NTFS file system.  What do I do?  I have another hard drive with a registered Windows (120GB, same system as the 80).  Can I make a start-up floppy disk with that?  Do I need to?

format the disk if u are not gonna use that windows os and do not have any important document onthat disk.

then u can just fresh install linux on that disk.

if u want to dual boot u can do that too.
on NTFS disk u can have linux and other disk u already have windows.
so take help of partition magic kind of siftware andmake your system dual boot.

My 80GB hard drive's jumper is stuck on master.  The wall right next to the jumper is too close, so nothing as of yet has been able to get a good grip on that.  I think I'll have to reformat or something.  I downloaded all 3 ISOs of Mandrake from some great servers - 350kb/s!  I put in the first CD and windows started up.  Even after tinkering with CD, floppy, then hard drive booting, I still get Windows to boot up and tell me I need to register it.  I have it registered on another hard drive, though...

I'll try burning another first CD to see if maybe the first one was just bad.  I had already tried Knoppix before this thread, and it didn't recognize my 802.11b PCI card at all.  Therefore, I can't do anything at all with it except Galaga and such.

Have you try to use other partition tools to remove your partition like partition magic or partition manager (both are not free), or you can try this http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/HOWTO/PLIP-Install-HOWTO-11.php3 to remove the partition, although this from RH site, but it for every linux distro.

I decided to take the easy way out.  I put in the XP CD and reformatted the hard drive to a FAT partition.  Then, I shut off the PC and took out the XP CD.  Finally, I could start up Mandrake (I don't know why I couldn't before) and I reformatted again, this time to whatever Mandrake uses.  I have successfully installed the first disk of 3.  The problem came when the 2nd could not be read.  Now I've reburned them and await tomorrow because then I'll be less tired.  I just read that SuSE is the only Linux that recognizes wireless LAN cards.  I asked a friend for a copy and should be getting one next week.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you.  It's late, so I haven't done anything.  I'm just responding to thank you very much for all of your efforts.  My friend, it seems, has burned 2-3 versions on the latests kernels.  He lives a state away, however, so it might take a week for the mail to arrive.  Tomorrow I'll be reading up on wireless lan for Linux.  Thanks for the link.

I got SuSE 8.2, and it couldn't connect to the LAN because I have 64-bit WEP encoding.  How do I type in the code in SuSE?

Does that mean I should disregard my networking comment, accept some answer(s), and then open another question?  I'll gladly open up another thread if so.

I think so.

Thanks a lot!  All of the answers were good, and psimation suggested that I make some lists so I picked that as the accepted answer.