RockoTDF

Ok, not really, but I did think it was funny when I saw these posters at the post office today:

I have YD Linux 4.1 installed on a firewire drive, typed install firewire like I was supposed to, etc. Installation went smoothly, but upon holding down option only the OS X partition comes up. I reinstalled YD, but no dice. Tried turning the drive on before booting, during scan for boot device, etc, but nothing. Anyone know how to fix this? I am thinking it could be that my hardware is not compatible for whatever reason (its an HD in an enclosure, if thats makes any difference)

Im thinking of giving up and just installing KDE in OS X so I can just use nix apps that way.

Any suggestions?

I am unable to get YDL 4.1 to install to my firewire drive as advertised. I type install firewire at the prompt and the firewire drive does not come up in the list of hard disks to edit in disk druid. I have looked all over the internet and cannot find any instructions that work unless it means resizing my internal HFS HD, which I do not want to do.

I find it incredibly frustratiing that terrasoft makes a big deal out of the firewire thing and then it doesnt friggin work.

I have an external DVD burner with my ibook, and would like to be able to burn ISO files in the terminal. However the terminal is set to use my internal drive by default. I have looked around the internet and I cant find how exactly you change this. Anyone know how?

I plan on installing a linux distro of some kind onto a firewire enclosure I have with my ibook. Yellowdog seems interesting since it has been a PPC oriented distro from day one and I would imagine to therefore have great driver support and so on.

But I could be wrong, so what advice do you all have? I was using fedora for a while on a pc that later died and liked yum and the the RPM system (never really quite figured out make install and all that...) which is one thing I like about the look of YDL. I also hear that apt get (?) is similar but better

Would I be better off with Darwin or some other BSD oriented system? I have located some statistics programs (open source SPSS replacements) for linux that I would like to be able to use in school next semester (psych major), so in addition to computer geeky fun I have a practical reason to want linux. SPSS is a pain when the labs that have it are all filled with people working on the same assignment you are, and id like to avoid that mess.