RE: No Go

Peanut is the only distribution that just went on my machine and everything seemed to work. It really was fairly easy to do (kudzu did the business). Even the wheel on my mouse works. It does seem a little unstable though - sometimes I startx and the desktops flicker about and the mouse flails around - though I may have an old copy. Still not sorted out activating the PPP from non-root either. But it surfs almost out of the box - after a little informed playing.

I agree about the partitioning thing though. I've done loads of disk partitioning with DOS / Win and I know the rules there. I've done a bit for linux (RH 5.2) and know what I want, but not how stuff works re Primary / Secondary - Bootable etc. So I had to make a load of guesses - and couldn't get it to boot. (I solved it by installing Win98 in 1st small partition, then peanut in another small one (to keep below cyl 1024), the LILO config found both and installed in the MBR [which it storngly advises against for some reason] does dual boot with no pain at all) Some AUTO-SETUP option would help - and the thing about mount points is a significant problem