i didnt think too deep about it in such way , i just digged till i found a old writable cd and burned the iso to it then booted from cd and installed linux which took me 6hrs to install which really reflects how much i dont know stuff about linux
about my specs
single core pentium 4 2.80 ghz
224 mb ddr2
32 mb ddr2 integrated graphics chip sis m650_651_740
baiscly a potato , i installed 32-bit tahrpup 6.0