You can get DSL to work by manually setting up your IP and DNS settings (one great thing about linux, no need to reboot after fiddling around with your network settings).

My take on the disks companies give you, don''t use them. They usually install so much !@#$ that''s completely unnecessary.

But as a suggestion, and don''t try to take this the wrong way, if you need a disk to get DSL set up on windows, I wouldn''t suggest linux right away. Learn a little on how to manually configure windows settings, as in most versions of linux, you''re going to have to manually set up some of your configurations. (Though, that is changing with newer, more user friendly versions as of late)