Root Rooting help?

[monkeyfish96]

Hi, I'm new to android and I'm new to rooting. I've read the faqs and forums, but I'm totally lost. I have a few questions.
1. What is the best way to go about rooting?
2. What are the must haves (backups,etc.) when rooting?
3. What are ROMs?
4. How can I use rooting to free up my internal memory?
I'm lost to the terms so please explain what they are if you use them.
Thanks

 

[craftycarper]

Read the Faq's etc again and again, if you can't get your head round it, probably best not to bother attempting any of it.

 

[Tyseyh]

Read the Faq's etc again and again, if you can't get your head round it, probably best not to bother attempting any of it.

What (s)he said.
I don't mind helping where I can but everything is in that guide.
Try just reading one till you understand it, then move to the next.

May seem a bit of a hassle, but anything we say will be in that guide.

Also, it is much better to understand what you are doing then just following instructions.

 

[jimmy jones]

Like the above comments read read then read it again. Not all the information is required but it provides an insight to what further things you can do.

I rooted my phone last week and will easily admit I was nervous about doing it, but I had copied and pasted the relevant instructions onto a word document in the correct order so I had everything I needed to hand. As I had read and re-read the info, the process of rooting was surprisingly easy. I had issues with Gparted, and I would put that down to my inexperience but SUroots method (on the hard drive) is by far the easiest, and watch the video as well as this helps a great deal. Installing the ROM (I went for the pre-rooted stock Gingerbread per teppic74's post) was again very simple.