Well if you have not hosed your system yet and still have Gnome up and running.
Here is a easy way than using the install CD. It is very quite simple really.
You will not believe how simple it is. Here is the link and you'll go. Wow that
is very simple! A good internet connection is a must. The reason why, is that it
is going to install KDE from the net.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kde

I have always like kde better then gnome and I wanted KDE w/my gnome
packages. I like the look of KDE better. Kubuntu is nice but comes with
half of what Ubuntu does. Bookmarked this bad boy.

If you do not like U I would suggest K and not X. But when you get to
the partitioner go to let me choose which opens up gparted you then just
delete both partitions that exist hit apply, then make a new one in ext3
hit apply. It sounds like you never hit apply.

I have KDE on another machine with another linux
flavor and like it. I was going to try Xubuntu as a minimal system because
the machine is older and slower, but has run KDE on suse before.
Again, thanks, will try the net install of X or K, or see if I can do a full
reload of K.

The reason why it box ran fine on SuSe is because of maybe of a older Linux
kernel or older version of SuSe. Like maybe 9.1 or older. If you got 10.0
running on SuSe or correct way to say it is Su ZA, but every one I know calls it
Suzy. It was because of the Linux Kernel requirements You can run it with older
versions and there is still back ports for support. Since Linux up grades faster
than MS. It can be hard to keep up with the Robinsons at times. There is a lot
of RPM's you can DL and such. Any way I have to take a nap before taken off to
the next town.

It shouldn't be too much of a hassle if you already have Ubuntu installed.
just type this in a terminal:

sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop

I don't think the download exceeds 100Mb. Now in the login screen you select
"Sessions" and select Xfce, and you should have xubuntu running.
Installing the "kubuntu-desktop" package is pretty much the same, but it
comes with a hoard of KDE apps and messes up everything. It's also a huge
download (about 650Mb).

> It shouldn't be too much of a hassle if you already have Ubuntu
> installed. just type this in a terminal:
>
> sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop

Hey, I never thought of this. I might give this a try on my 850Mhz
Pentium III w/256MB RAM. It's got the Gnome desktop right now and it
doesn't drag or anything but having an alternative will be neat.

> I don't think the download exceeds 100Mb. Now in the login screen
> you select "Sessions" and select Xfce, and you should have xubuntu
> running.

Very cool. I assume that one could switch back and forth between the
Xfce & Gnome desktops. Heck, that *might* make this interesting for
the wife and son.

> Installing the "kubuntu-desktop" package is pretty much the same,
> but it comes with a hoard of KDE apps and messes up everything.

Thanks for the warning. I was tried Kubuntu once and didn't like it
very much, this just confirms that I *still* don't like it. ;)

XFce DOES include a couple of apps including the XTerm, but it won't mess
anything. Also, you can run your usual gnome programs on XFce, but you can't
run gnome apps on KDE very well. However, you can run KDE apps on gnome very
well

I've figured out how to get the shortcuts on the bar across the top of
the screen. I just need to figure out how to get XTerm to display at
the same size when launched from there that it does from the
applications menu.

I've also got Photoshop 7 & Dreamweaver 8 running under WINE. They
load pretty quickly on the Pentium III I'm using. Not bad for 256 MB
of RAM.

The thing you r telling about

"but you can't run gnome apps on KDE very well.
However, you can run
KDE apps on gnome very well"

Its not like that. Actually, If on Gnome you are
installing anything i.e. any application even a single
music player like AmaroK etc. of KDE then you have to
install all libraries of KDE in Gnome. And same for
the KDE also if you are installing Gnome apps on KDE
then you have to install that library along with that,
which is not recommended. So usually try to use Gnome
application with gnome only and KDE apps with KDE
only.

You can pretty much run any linux program no matter what is your desktop
selection is. You can install a tar ball file and as long you met all the
depends for it. Well as long it is not a 3D and does not require a whole lot of
ram. So if you want some games to ticker with.
http://www.happypenguin.org/
Most on the site you'll need to install from source and 2d graphics. So you'll
need how to install from source.

Not sure if anyone posted this but I like this way of setting things up.

ubuntu-tutorials.com/.../alternate-desktop-managers-kde-xfce-enlig\
htenment-fluxbox-ubuntu-6061-610/