Kubuntu experience

[Brian Astill]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:31, Peter Garrett wrote:
> Brian, has it occurred to you, at all. that you seem to be the only
> person who has these bizarre inconsistencies in your installation? I
> ask, because it would seem at least possible (unlikely, no doubt),
> that you have made a mistake, and that the distro is not actually at
> fault on this particular matter.

It might, if I had been running the system for a little while and 
actually changed something serious (probably using root access).  This 
is a stock-standard installation which as you know needs just about 
zero information or guidance from me.  The ONLY thing I have done is 
set up a root password.  Until this afternoon I hadn't used Kubuntu for 
any work whatsoever - just examined it.

It IS possible that the CD or the transfer of files from CD to HD has 
caused some corruption.  I did check MD5SUM, but that _might_ have been 
mis-read??

I downloaded hoary using kubuntu and lftp, then tried to burn from the 
ISO using K3b, only to find that cdrdao was missing so k3b could not 
run.  This is the first indication I have that just maybe the cd->hd 
transfer has not been completely accurate.
(As it happened I had a version of cdrdao on another partition.  Copying 
this across let k3b run and the burn was successful according to MD5SUM 
checking)

I will be setting up a new system shortly and will use hoary and  
download kde to produce a system similar to the warty/kde system I 
currently use.  My guess is that it will work just fine. 

-- 
Regards,
Brian