So yeah, tried installing Y2 and Y2.1.0 (I think that's what it is). Neither worked. My specs are as follows:
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82.3gig IBM Deskstar
DVD-ROM
Athlon XP 2600+, Barton Core
Biostar M7NCD Ultra motherboard
2x256mb PC2700 memory
floppy
Radeon 9200, 256mb
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Didn't see any errors during boot messages.

First of all, then, what size of what kind of partitions should I create for this install? The yoper.com forum has been down forever.

I kept getting this message, which repeated over and over and OVER:
"Username not recognized, Passwd not changed" or something like that. What can I do about this? Thanks a lot

never seen that message.

anyway, you need three partitions

first is / which should be 5 gigs
second is /swap which should be 700mb
third is /home which should be whatever you have to spare.

/ and /home should be reiserfs. /swap should be linus-swap.

YOS is installing. This will take 5-15 minutes.
Reiserfs: hda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
Reiserfs: hda1: using ordered data mode
Reiserfs: hda1: journal params: device hda1 size 8192, journal first block 18
max trans len 1024, max batch 900,j max commit age 30, max trans age 30
Using R5 hash to sort names

hdc: media error etc
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 867344
buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 216836

Then I chose not to do the networksetup thing. It showed a bunch of quick little error messages that go by too quick to read and then goes to the LILO screen. I choose yes.

Unable to determine whether video adapter ...(couldn't read the rest, went by too fast)

Then it asks time zone stuff, and username. I type my name, "Alex" and then it keeps scrolling with:


Password not changed, please retry
Passwd: Unknown user Alex


This ALWAYS happens. Is it the hard drive, and if so what can I do? Thanks a lot.

try using alex instead of Alex. im not sure that will help, but taht s all i can think of.

also, format the harddrie completly before you install, dont leave any old data on there.

Ok, I'll try that. Thanks. Is there some kind of problem that Yoper 2.1.0 has with capital letters, or is that just a shot in the dark? I've reformatted and wiped it comletely clean several times, to no avail. Maybe it's an issue with my motherboard, that Yoper doesn't like it? It's a Biostar M7NCD Ultra, Nforce 3 stuff... thanks