HD Install :: new user trying to install

I used Partition Commander to sort mine. Do for msot partitions as it doesn't delete anything so I can resize them happily, takes a while on my 120 gb drive but worth it.

Was free with a magazine and boots up using its on GUI, no need for an OS installed.

Try a version from here, maybe they do an ISO like I got mine in from the magazine. Burn it to a CD and your done, maybe this won't help if you don't have a CD-R though  

Hay,
Correct me if I'm wrong, you did have a boot floppy, and you did have the live cd
(first didn't work, but in you're second move it worked? Or didn't it?
So you can start DSL, not?
When you're in dsl you can format your drives with fdisk or cfdisk?
If not, maybe you can try the following:
follow this: http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....1;t=186
So when you have mswin95, running, you should be able to copy you're cd to a dir on c:\...and boot with your diskette...
or use minimalistic linux distro, such as:

http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/iso.html
or

http://floppix.ccai.com/
But you have to check the posibility of HD formatting in these?
Is fdisk or cfdisk in there?
Have fun, and success with you're project.
By the way: I didn't buy partition magic, I just used it, hihihi.