Warrior! /spack!
deadly: Ignore QuikMan and do this (seriously, I'm trying to help you. You need it..)
1) Grab a friendly Macinosh and plop it down on your desk to use as a FTP server. (If you have broadband, you can subsititute a FTP server on the WAN for this step.)
2) Upload anything remotely important. (This is why I love 100MBPS bandwidth.)
3) Stick in Slack CD, reboot, holding F12 as needed. (Dell.)
4) cfdisk. Delete it all! Flush! I'd go half to 3/4 the drive NTFS or FAT32 (Slack can read both), 1024MB of Type 82 (Linux Swap), and the rest type 83 (Linux).
5) Install Windows. I believe you should know how to do this.
6) Reboot to Slack CD again.
7) Setup. Configure your swapfile. Easy. Configure target drive. Almost as easy (BE SURE TO USE EXT3 OR GET FUCKED!!~). Select whatever packages you want, blah.
Watch all the pretty advertisments for the open source freeware of wub. On your processor this should take an hour or two. Its pretty tightly compressed.
9) At the end of setup, install lilo in the MBR (you have nothing to lose but a few hours of work and whatever you installed in Windows). I just used the automatic setup, and it found my XP Home just fine. For a kernel, use bare.i unless you need something else. My computer is fairly standard so I just used bare.i.
10) Remove slackware CD, Ctrl Alt Delete.
11) Meet LILO. Its pretty black and redness greets you, and asks you what teh fuck you want to do today. You probably want to use Linux, don't you? Press 2 (well, thats what it is for me) or scroll to Linux and press enter. PS: CR = Carridge Return, the *nix translation of enter.
Configuring X11 and ALSA: (Desktop and Sound)
Alsa is easy as fuck, so do it first.
1) Type "alsaconf" and press enter. Follow on screen prompts. This took no brain power whatsoever.
2) Type "alsamixer" and press enter. Adjust your volume.
X11 setup:
1) Type "xorgsetup" and press enter. This will automatically detect your shiz and you'll be ready to go.
2) Type "xwmconfig" and press enter. Pick WindowMaker, because all the rest are nub. You may want to look at them, though, so have fun.
3) Type "startx" and meet your new home. If the resolution is two high or two low, adjust it using Ctrl + Alt + Plus / Minus.
Network Setup:
Slackware's greatness usually detects this for you. Right click (assuming your using windowmaker), go to run, and click it again. In the box that pops up (you may have to scroll the screen. This only feels wierd for the first 5 minutes.) type mozilla. Your good friend Mozzy pops up, and you're surfin teh net.
Setting up accounts for the family:
1) At the command prompt again (Right Click --> xterm / exit) type "adduser <username" and press enter. Follow the on screen prompts and have fun with it.
Anything more, ask yago.