[LUG] Xandros 3.0 Open Circulation Distro

[Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

As MDK 10.1 was giving more and more hassle I decided to try the above, 
as a friend gave it to me on CD.

I *like* the installer, nice and friendly, even says if you have /home 
on the same partition that it will rename it to /oldhome.

I *don't* like the fact that I can't get it to work.  At all.

Fairly basic problem, at least describing it is simple.  I install 
Xandros and then reboot as normal.  First of all it doesn't give you any 
useful information on screen during boot, other than very simplistic 
readouts of "loading kernel", "checking hardware" etc.  Only if you use 
the Expert option do you get the verbose output which I've come to like 
as I have learned what is good and what isn't in the display.

In this instance what is bad is that it will *not* initialise my network 
on boot.  eth0 fails every single time.  It's an onboard network card on 
an Nforce2 MoBo.  Could that be why Xandros is having a mare?

Also when I tap in my password for KDE I get a string of errors telling 
me various KDE config files which (presumably) need to be read/write are 
read only.  Then it seems to think that DCOP is not running.  I will 
freely admit to ignorance on this point.  I'm well aware that DCOP is 
vital (at least this has pointed to that being so anyway) but I have no 
idea what it does.

Any suggestions gratefully received, other than another distro :)  
Having said that I think I have an ISO of the network install for Debian 
somewhere (God knows which release).  Assuming *that* will let my 
network behave it might be worth a look.

Kind regards,

Julian

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