Thank you Marcel for replying. Digging around in Control Centre I found the 2 places where I had to choose the KDE Desktop to boot. (By the way, I did not have a log in screen where I could choose. That was part of my problem.) I have booted fine EXCEPT... I ran into problems when I tried to update to KDE 3.5. I downloaded the packages from the website. I thought I would not need the dev packages, since I am not intending to develop the distro, used the tip I read on your website about choosing a different source directory. I chose a folder I created called KDE 3.5, moved all the 3.5 RPMs into it, and installed. Obviously I did not have all the required packages and booted into a malformed desktop with many things not functioning. The only solution I could see was to re-intall Suse 10.0.
I did that, chose KDE this time, and booted into a nice desktop. However, where before I had a little icon in the gnome taskbar that showed that my network connection was not connected, and I would proceed to maually chose the ethernet connection to enable it, and this icon carried over to my KDE 3.4 taskbar, in this fresh installation I had no such icon, and have been unable to get on the internet since. The network card is configured as it was previously, I have gone through every KDE Control Center option, to no avail. I was considering ordering a tutorial cd available from PCTech 101. I have read your new book, which is very helpful, but does not specifically address this situation. I was also interested in the post on your page by the fellow who instally Linspire on his wife's machine. I am a fairly experienced Windows user who would like to use Linux, but am not able to devote hours and hours to getting simple installation accomplished. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Suse 10.0 problems
Thank you Marcel for replying. Digging around in Control Centre I found the 2 places where I had to choose the KDE Desktop to boot. (By the way, I did not have a log in screen where I could choose. That was part of my problem.) I have booted fine EXCEPT... I ran into problems when I tried to update to KDE 3.5. I downloaded the packages from the website. I thought I would not need the dev packages, since I am not intending to develop the distro, used the tip I read on your website about choosing a different source directory. I chose a folder I created called KDE 3.5, moved all the 3.5 RPMs into it, and installed. Obviously I did not have all the required packages and booted into a malformed desktop with many things not functioning. The only solution I could see was to re-intall Suse 10.0.
I did that, chose KDE this time, and booted into a nice desktop. However, where before I had a little icon in the gnome taskbar that showed that my network connection was not connected, and I would proceed to maually chose the ethernet connection to enable it, and this icon carried over to my KDE 3.4 taskbar, in this fresh installation I had no such icon, and have been unable to get on the internet since. The network card is configured as it was previously, I have gone through every KDE Control Center option, to no avail. I was considering ordering a tutorial cd available from PCTech 101. I have read your new book, which is very helpful, but does not specifically address this situation. I was also interested in the post on your page by the fellow who instally Linspire on his wife's machine. I am a fairly experienced Windows user who would like to use Linux, but am not able to devote hours and hours to getting simple installation accomplished. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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