On Friday 17 September 2004 11:47 pm, Dan Harper wrote: > 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 Sorry to hear that Dan... I'd be interested to have more details of your install so I can pass that onto the other developers. If you installed Lilo in the mbr it should have identified your Windows partition. Was it a standard install on to one hard drive? The only part I stumbled with on my first install was the graphical disk partitioning utility...and that was mainly due to my semi ignorance and familiarity with what kind of partiton is what with respect to primary, logical, extended, etc. OTher than that it went fine...but then I never install onto a drive I don't expect to wipe as a rule...that's just me. R~ > > > 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
