The only thing that I can tell you to do is to find a good AMD distro and try it out. If you are working with XP or Vista, you can ISO recorder to burn to DVD and then go from there. You really need to find out what your system specs are especially what chipset you use, what graphics card you have, sound card etc. Once you know that, you can boot from the Distro DVD and customize the install from it's menu. I had to try and fail several times before I got it right.