Being a Linux noob myself, I fooled with several live distros before installing my flavor of choice. Having played with most of them, I have two that I like: PCLinux and Knoppix 3.4.17. I too had problems with suse 9.1 but the others booted flawlessly. if you cannot find the above-mentioned distros and you have strong bandwidth, email me at helios17@austin.rr.com and I will fix you up on my server.