Going to install RedHat Linux. Need advice

[TheWarrior]

Hi, i am using 2 hard drives. one that is 40 GB and another is 80 GB. but the 40 GB one is my dad's so i cant use it. any way, i have 2 partitions. one for windows XP and another which is empty and i really dont care about it. so all ive read alot of posts and manuals but cant get this clear
i should make a boot floppy disk
install linux on my second partition
use boot disk to boot into linux
also i want another thing. there are the ECIDSL RPM package that i would like to send into linux. should i put it into a floppy normally using windows then copy it to linux when i install it?
thankyou for your time and support

[Mr_Nicholas]

Hey Warrior
firstly, a little more information could be good.
if you have red hat on a cd, you should be able to boot straight off the cd to install (if you cant, then roll with Mandrake instead). that does away with the need for a bootdisk. if you still want to use a bootdisk, and have red hat on the hard disk, you can boot up from the floppy and specify the path of the red hat .iso or directory, and away you go. once installed, you will need to configure the boot loader to allow dual booting of windows xp and red hat. depending on which version you have this should be easy as pie.
good luck with it, i'm new to linux too, i went with mandrake for user friendliness and it seems great for me.