technically i think the problem is with the first initial startup. i install everything fine, i figured out i had to commit the changes to the partition setup, i get to setting up the time zone, i even get the black screen with the signature linux 'X" cursor, but then that goes away and i get an un-blinking text cursor in the top left corner of the screen and it freezes....any ideas?

the box is an old p2 or 3, i think in the high 3/low 4 hundred MHz. i got it free and second hand...i could tell you more about the hardware if i had an OS running on it. it's not got much ram, i think 128 M.

i have tried both reiser4 and ext3, it freezes in the same place with both. i've tried leaving the partitions from the previous mandrake install in tact, i tossed those, reformatted, deleted partitions and created new ones, made them different sizes...any ideas?

mandrake 10 installed fine, but from what i'm told about yoper, it's just easier to deal with., and teh install is much faster.

This ha happened to me when I was intstalling Yoper v2 for the first time.
So, after the installation when the "Automatic graphic system set up" pop-up, chose "Change configuraton" and if there is nothing to change, click "Finalize" / "Save" / "Ok"
..and you are in.
I hope it will work for you.

it doesn't get that far....i did notice a few lines that said "fatal error" flash on the screen but it was too quick to read anything else....might this machine be too old and slow? it predates the atx form factor.

What processor are you running?

One of the reasons Yoper is so fast is that it is compiled for i686 (which means Pentium2 and higher IIRC) while most other distos compile for i386 for compatibility. Thus, I think you are probably trying to run Yoper on an incompatible cpu . I don't think there is much you can do about this problem other than switching to another distro.

Regards
Janus

well I'm running a Celeron 800 on an IBM ThinkPad A22E, and I get the exact same problem. I thought it was because my bootloader for some reason couldn't be written to hda.

I might note that the partition hda isn't even formatted. Doesn't even let me format it in the qtpart program.

I have tried installing yoper on 3 different systems:

1.P4 3.0 with 2 gigs of ram
2.Amd 64 with 1 gig of ram
3.Compaq laptop with 128 megs ram

On all systems no soap. The P4 freezes up right at the start with a error

The laptop goes most of the way and locks at the part where you partition... well it doesn't really lock up, it just keeps saying there is no linux partition to install to even though you just set one up...

The Amd i am not really sure about... everything worked up till the partitioning and I quit there cause I have a workind just fine install of SuSE on it and didn't want to screw it up.

I'm going mostly by the P4 and the laptop as both SuSE and Buffalo have installed on both. Slackware also installed just fine on the laptop.

Would love to try yoper, but how do you get it to install?