"Guide to Installation" my foot!

[Ted Lemon]

What the pamphlet says is that it is an addendum to what you see on 
screen as you're installing, not the full information.   Seems pretty 
accurate.

The destination is where you want Yellow Dog Linux to go to, not where 
you want it to come from.   You can't install on to the CD.   At the 
point in the install where you're trying to click on the greyed-out CD, 
you need to click on the drive onto which you want to install.

I think you need to go take a walk before you proceed with this, though 
- it sounds like you're pretty frustrated, and you might break 
something if you keep trying to install with your current state of 
mind.   :'(

BTW, in case you think the RedHat installers are perfect, I tried 
installing RedHat 9 on my laptop a couple of weeks ago and couldn't, 
because although it could boot of the CD-ROM, it couldn't find it once 
it booted.   On another computer I tried to install it on, it can't 
even boot off the CD-ROM.   :'/

Making a completely bulletproof installer is *hard*.

By the way, I am under the impression that is _is_ possible to upgrade, 
rather than just blowing away what you have.   I haven't done it 
myself, so I may be wrong, but I've been told by at least one other 
person that it's possible.   You might want to read through the mailing 
list archives to see if you can learn more.