CanuckKev Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Well, now I am frustrated. After getting a great install and trying out a few things, I had to reinstall because I am loosing a hard drive. So, Saturday, I backed up what I wanted from my XP drive and split the 40 GB. 15 GB for XP and the rest for MDK 9.0 Re-installed XP and got it all setup the way the family is used to it. No Problem. Now, here is where the fun began. I realized that the MDK cd's were at the office. No Big deal. I know that I had put all 3 CD's on my office FTP server. Not as ISO's mind you, but the RAW cd's. So, Fire up a network Bootdisk, select an FTP install, and away we go.... 5 HOURS LATER... (Yep, we have a HDSL connection at work, 768K in and out, and a Cable modem at home...) All installed, the setup was easy (have installed MDK 9 about 4 times now, so I'm used to it. Now, get all the updates for the packeages I installed (basically a desktop with games, multimedia, development, network client, and office.) 250 MB or so later, all the updates done. Great, everything works. Now, after reading all the stuff about KDE 3.1, I used the Easy UPRMI page at http://plf.zarb.org/~nanadron/ to configure Texstars RPMs for the KDE 3.1 packages. Then I selected the main KDE packages that matched what I currently had installed ( I check the remove packages listing in Mandrake Conf). All dependencies were no problem, the only packages left aout were a few develop packages. It reported all packages were installed no problem, and I did notice a few changes in the KDE Menu, but I thought I better restart, but first I nuked my .kde directory. I restarted and logged into KDE, and there was no desktop icons as I suspected. So I wanted to look at my home directory. Fired up Konqueror, and BOOM! got an (I think it was code 11) error. Okay, So I checked that there was no packages that I forgot, BOOM! Can't start Mandrake Conf. Tried opening Konsole. BOOM! all of these are giving me the same error. I can't do anything. Hmmm... Check the boards from my laptop, nothing about this error. So, I switched to a console and logged in as root. Console hung. Switched back to X and restart. Still can't run anything. So, Last night, at 11PM, I threw the network install disk in and reinstalled it yet again. THis morning, I did some updates, but I really want the KDE 3.1 install. Should I go to the Beta??? Or does someone know what I did. SHould I have logged into KDE as root to do this install?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 i don't use kde myself, but i believe there have been several known issues with 3.1. i'd suggest not installing kde 3.0 at all, and then try installing 3.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Sounds like some packages weren't installed. I installed all the packages from ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...ke/9.0/KDE-3.1/ and uninstalled crystal icons and Keramik (these are included in 3.1) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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