Linux on Life drive for dummies

Hello i have visited this website many times over the past year all in hopes of putting linux on my lifedrive. I am pretty nervous and I was wondering if anybody who has put linux on their LD could help me do the same thing but with instructions that are so simple a 2 year old could follow them.

Is too hard download this

Is too hard download this http://releases.hackndev.com/TP2.tar.bz2 (at the main hackndev page), unpack it and read README?

HOWTO:
1) copy cocoboot.prc to /harddrive/Applications/
2) copy following files:
cocoboot.conf
linux.boot.cfg
rootfs.ext2
swap
zImage
to /harddrive/
3) run cocoboot, tap BOOT

What is easier??

I got to the boot screen for

I got to the boot screen for linux but it said something was missing and it just froze.

So you should read what is

So you should read what is missing and provide it ;-)

Its just not that well

Its just not that well developed yet. Linux on lifedrive is a nice proof of concept, but just not that usable. Is anyone using LOL as a daily driver?

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