thanks for all the suggestions. i partitioned my harddrive and i selected the first boot menu to cdrom. however, the file is not recognised as a setup file so it goes to windows again. As i mentioned, the Linspire linux is the downloaded version so i guess it is in different format, i even tried decompressing it, but still it's the same thing. If you guys know, what is the correct format of the linux install files that is recognized by the system? And if there is any easy installer for that? Thanks again for all the replies.