need some advice

["Raju K. V." <rajukv wipinfo soft net>]

hi all,

Till now I have been using Win 98 on my workstation. Now I am fed up of it
and am dying to install linux. The configurartion of my machine is

Intel Celeron 300Mhz
32 MB RAM
4.2 GB harddisk

Out of the 4.2 GB, around 1.5 GB is used by Win98. The problem is backing
up most of the 1.5 GB is very cumbersome and most of it is required. My
disk is not partitioned. So is there any way by which I can partition my
disk without losing data data on the 1.5 GB?

Also can you suggest an optimal configuration like how much partition for
linux and how much for win98 etc?

Thanks in advance,
Raju