use xandros 4.1 open circulation edition.its the same as windows xp
look alike and features are made keeping in account the feel and look
for xp users..

u can download the torrent and get it installed and get going in no time

Regards
linuxmasters

More help is availble below
www.linuxchandigarh.org


--- In linux_chandigarh@..., "Saurabh Sharma"
<baccilus@...> wrote:
>
> There are 10 computers in the computer lab of my department(Panjab
> university, CHD). All of them have windows installed and suffer from
> computer viruses regularly.
>
> I have somehow convinced my computer sir to install linux on them. But
> the problem is that although i can easily do so at my home, it's
> difficult to do so there because of networking problem.
>
> I have a Dataone connection at home which is easy to
> configure(pppoeconf) in ubuntu. But i know too little about networking
> to do so there. There is one main computer and all other computers are
> linked through it.
>
> The networking configurations will have to be found out through
> windows (through ifconfig or something like this),since nobody knows
> anything there.
>
> I need someone to either guide me through it or come there personally
> and do it on atleast a couple of computers. I will do the rest.
>
> system configuration:
> P4. 2.4 GHz, 256MB RAM, 845 intel mobo.
>