same here trying to get navyn workin, the install is not as good as vidalinux, if i didnt run dual boot i would be more willing to mess with it, but i have too many important files that cannot be backed up from an accident.... and thats with the new version 2005.1 maybe they can make a tutorial because ive run the installer and the partitioner but dont see any difference on my linux partitions....

If you are using VidaLinux to find out "what Gentoo is all about" then you've made a mistake... the best way to find out what gentoo is all about is by using gentoo.. even doing a stage 3 install will teach you much more, and has a tendancy to pull you into 'the gentoo experience'.

It's not hard to install, providing you follow the handbook. It is, however, time consuming. But there is great help on the gentoo forums as well as on #gentoo IRC on freenode.

Vidalinux is good for getting a gentoo-based system up quick.. such as your case, using a laptop.. but I just finished a stage 3 install on my notebook, and it wasn't too bad. I'm not done tweaking everything yet..

Good luck.. a lot of people seem to really like it...

been there, done that.... im hoping to get a laptop soon so i can have a gentoo only system.... i have several other computers but they are all dual boot

The latest vidalinux release did not have any of the problems that I had earlier. It is a great distro.

yup, vidalinux is great.... got a friend to use it too. ive used debian for years, and tried many other distros upon their release. im going back to vidalinux

The "hesitation" is probably due to your harddrive. If you want, you can post the output of this command or send it to me in case I may miss your reply.

hdparm -tT /dev/hda
(assuming that you have Gentoo on your first harddrive...)

y2k

Well VidaLinux 1.1 is great, but it has a problem with laptops. I was also trying to run Navyn OS but I didn't like 2005.1 anymore.

VLOS 1.1 is really good, just we need more people in their forum and people to start coming to the irc channel on freenode.net #vidalinux

ive used it. it was nice (im on vector linux now)

it was gentoo with a gui anaconda installer, so no complaints about "its not gentoo". but from what i read, gentoo is also implimenting an easier graphical installer, so vida will soon be meaningless. also, i posted about vida linux on slashdot a while back.

Vector rc2?

its vector 5.0 SOHO (i think its still prerelease, since the website says 4.3 is the latest). its slackware 10 based, so all slackware 10 packages will work.