Oh yeah... Don't think of committing lightly, yesterday I tested it out on a machine and managed to lose the ability to boot into Windows. And in the end I couldn't even boot into Yoper as there was no option to make a boot disk and making one manually also failed. It's install process is very nasty and unintuitive, that part definitely needs a lot of work. I can't say about the rest because I haven't gotten that far yet! Dan > Russell Hanaghan wrote: > > On Friday 17 September 2004 01:38 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >>Russell Hanaghan wrote: > >> > >>>On Friday 10 September 2004 05:23 am, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > >>> > >>>Just a quick update on this... > >>> > >>>We now have the following rpms built and working on Yoper Linux: > >> > >>I burned a copy of Yoper thinking it was possible to run it as a LiveCD, > >>but it doesn't act like that when I booted so I turned it off. > >> > >>Is there a way to try it out before committing a machine to a new > >>distribution? > > > > > > Sadly, no. IT's a "commitment" kind of thing! Don't be afraid of commitment > > Mark! :) > > > > R~ > > > > > Sorry - It's a problem that both I and Carrie on Sex in the City have > had our whole lives! ;-) > > I'm probably better off to stick with Gentoo and use the patches for > Con's kernel that are in the forums. I'll still look at Yoper, but on a > safer, less committed basis I think. ;-) > > > -- Dan Harper
