Not so true andrew. I successfully completed these steps yesterday (after bout 6 hours) and I just installed linux for my first time last month when I got my N900. I wrote down some steps to try and help you through but I have never written a tutorial so It may seem sketchy. Give me a lil time and I will post it up here for you. A lot of these answers (like how to format a drive in ext3) are common procedures and you can find help with them elsewhere on the internet. So basically I found answers for every little step along the way and put it all together. The one problem with this though is that the standard 0.17v11 version of MER does not include the 3D acceleration so it runs slooooooooooooooooooooower than my dead gradma's dead turtle.