The partitioner left a lot to be desired though...the software seems to be hard-coded to expect around a 1.6 GB hard drive...any more, and the space is wasted. Any less, and you can't install at all, even though the final installed product takes up far less than 1.6 GB.

The user setup process seemed to be straight forward enough. It really wasn't clear whether or not I was creating a user with administrative privileges or not though.

And here the installer is running. The online help thing now scrolls through a bunch of advertisements for various ABit motherboard offerings.

The installer has completed, showing us a picture of the Gentus mascot.
Of course it's not quite complete as with most Linuxes there is significant configuration to do afterwards. In particular, despite XOrg working great to run the installer, I could never get it to work properly after first boot. I had to manually edit the various X config files in order to get it to start, and on top of that, I had to run X as the root user so I could run the configurator in order to set the screen resolution! What a mess...

Of course, once we do boot up, you can see it's a bog standard desktop for the time period. This is basically nothing but Red Hat Linux with a few modified tools. I chose the default GNOME desktop option. Compare also to Corel Linux and Mandrake of the time, which were KDE-based.