Success anyhow -- mostly (was Re: "Guide to Installation" my foot!)

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, I, Beartooth wrote:

> 	All right, I bought the CDs, intending to install over the top
> of 2.3 -- and sacrifice everything already there <gnash, grate,
> snarl>,
	(snip!)
> 	So I decide to try to go ahead -- after all, they brag about how
> easy it is, and how much like RH9 (which I have just installed on my
> desktop).
	(snip!)
> ... you do eventually get to "Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux" -- which
> tells you yet again to read the fine but non-extant Guide ...
> 
> 	[To Be Continued -- stay tuned]

	Turns out they do themselves an injustice: the install process
is clearer and easier than RH8, and it avoided or prevented one of the
two gotchas I encountered with that: my monitor seems to be identified 
and configured correctly. 

	But the other gotcha seems to be here too: now it doesn't want
me to boot into the old part. I tell it x, and it asks me again -- very
quickly, and still in tiny print -- saying something about "stage 1."  
Then, depending whether or not I keep hitting x, it either boots YDL
anyway, or goes into a blank white screen that just sits there.

	The only reason I'm keeping OSX is for the occasional nasty case 
of an ISP I can't make YDL connect to; it may turn out that I don't need 
it any more, and if not I certainly won't miss it. If I really don't, 
I'll gladly re-install to let 3.0 have the whole 35GB.

	But meanwhile it's my backup access to the Net: how do I get to
it??

-- 
Beartooth Implacable <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com> 
FREE at last: Retired to the Mountains, No Mortgage
Keep iin mind that I have little idea what I'm talking about.