So...finally got my parts: 8rda+, 1700+ Tbred, slk-800, 512 corsair xms3200, leadtek GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB 8x, WD 80GB HDD, 10 GB IBM HDD, Hitachi DVD drive, floppy drive.
And naturally, I left my Windows XP disk at home in Houston, so I'm w/o an OPsys...so I'm trying to setup linux...now...