I am happy to report I now have my core up and running beta2. Thanks to tkmedia for the assistance and for putting up with my "what's an irc? is it apt-get or wget?" type questions. Here is a run down of what I needed to do in order to correct some problems I had with DVD install.
Downloaded Kubuntu 8.10 i386
burned it to a cd
installed it on SCSI3 ( sda)
I used 'guided - use entire disk
got to desktop and opened a terminal
sudo su
apt-get update
wget -c http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/new-installer-beta2.5.tar.gz
tar xvf new-installer-beta2.5.tar.gz
cd new-installer
./pre-install-from-repo.sh
./mce-install.sh
./post-install.sh
reboot
Ran through AVWizard and I was up and running
First problem:
inserting a DVD gave me an error message about missing DVDCSS library
alt+ctrl+f2
opened a terminal
sudo apt-get dvdcss2
reboot
Solved
Next issue:
Trying to get to kde desktop gave me a "could not start ksmserver" error
I found a link to work around this and get what sounds like a stripped down desktop environment but I was unable to get it working before I had to head to bed. I will post my command and success when I get home tonight.
http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9541.15
Reply #16 is what you want to do. FYI "systemsetting" is a typo; should be "systemsettings".
reply #16 edited - it now reads correct :)
Quote from: pw44 on February 10, 2010, 02:15:59 PM
reply #16 edited - it now reads correct :)
Proper job.
Thanks a million for the help here! One thing that I found for the dvdcss was that I had to use "sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2"