Okay, when I first booted the computer, it came up with all this registering crap for Toshiba, and windows 98 was already pre-installed.
There's a trick I learned from my dad, to basically keep your windows partition, and add another partition as well.
It requires a program called fips. Fips should be located under /dosutils/fips* on your Linux distribution CD. If you downloaded your copy of Linux, you should go find the fips program to have this work correctly. Fips partitions hard drives based on cyclinders.
First Step:
In Windows, go into the control panel, system, performance, advanced (virtual memory section). DISABLE virtual memory. It will give you all these messages, just keep clicking ok.
Second Step:
Reboot your computer. If you just have 32 megs of ram like I did when I did this, windows will crash on you. For users who's system's crash after rebooting, load windows in safe mode by hitting f8 after toshiba does a ram check.
Okay. You should be in Windows again, either in safe mode or normal mode. Now you need to run defrag. This moves all the files to the FRONT of your hard drive. Once defrag is done, make sure you have a boot disk that enables CD-ROM support. Pop that disk in and reboot your computer once more.
Step Three:
Go into the latest version of FIPS on your cdrom. type fips.exe. Fips will run a few checks on your hard drive, and ask you hit "press any key" a bunch of times. You will finally get to a screen where it asks you a few questions such as...(will fill in)
Reboot your computer and hit F2 to go into setup mode in bios. Change the boot tab to CD-ROM first. Save and exit.