So I decided to take the plunge and finally install linux on a second 
hard drive that I have had laying around for awhile.  I've done a few 
different distro installs before, but not actually played around with 
the stuff much. Anyhoo, I installed the progeny distro, which went 
fairly well, except that my soundcard is not supported yet (turtle beach 
montego 2: vortex2 chip).  I have run into 2 things which are driving me 
nuts.

1: I installed the new hard drive as the primary master, and moved my HD 
with win98 to slave.  I used the full master hard drive for linux, which 
in progeny is set up with grub.  I have no idea how to use grub, and 
specifically how to set it up to switch to my original hard drive, where 
my win98, aka game machine, is.  Any pointers to a how-to would be nice, 
I have found 1 but it is rather cryptic.

2: The dhcp networking found my dsl connection without a hitch.  In my 
household I also have an internal network with a whole bunch of win98 
machines.  I would like to set up something like the "network 
neighborhood" so that I can mount these network drives, allowing me to 
access the mp3 server in the other room.  also I have a usb printer 
attached to this system, which I would like to use from other win98 
machines.  again any pointers to a how-to would be appreciated.

thanks
nate moore