I installed RC5 on a compaq laptop with a K6-2 433 processor with 192M. The first problem to raise its head is that my password didn't work in kdm but is ok from the console. I think this relates to the xorg.conf xkbdlayout option which is still set to "de" but changing it to "en" seemed to bork X. I just looked at my other box and perhaps I should have used "us".

I was able to roughly follow the update instructions in update-RC4.txt and did some clean up and all seems to be ok...other than the kdm keyboard issue. All the onboard hardware and Netcardconfig for my pcmcia ethernet worked fine and I was able to get it online easily as with 2006 versions. I haven't tried the ltmodem yet...have heard that support for that one is shakey. It isn't real fast due to the slow cpu and small memory but it seems to be cleaner overall than building up the various minimal Etch installs; definitely better than the mepis based AntiX or DSL or Puppy, all of which I tried on this machine before discovering that Kano was back with Thorhammer.

Oh, almost forgot...couldn't get the iso to burn on my HP 9100 series CD burner. k3b kept blowing up due to being "unable to load cuesheet". Finally had to do it with wodim in the RAW mode to get it to burn. My new Lite-on DVD burner would burn it, but it won't burn slow for some reason...wants to burn at max speed all the time regardless of k3b or wodim settings. At least it was cheap!

It's great to be back with a fresh Kanotix distro on this laptop but it is a bit heavy for the machine...wish there was a "lite" version. Minor detail...I love thorhammer! Thanks for being there Kano!

For us one-language (as in one-legged) english speakers...

Hi
Who has downloaded Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer ?
What is your experience with it ?

(for the others: the thorhammer-link is given in the IR-Chat)

You have to ask Kano for the download link.

Hi
Who has downloaded Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer ?
What is your experience with it ?

Usually usb hd install is very easy now when you do it correctly. You did not use the advanced option to reorder the Grub device.map.

I am not sure what the problem with your pw is. Maybe you bootet with german settings then it is a keyboard layout problem as the xorg.conf is set to german (de). Check this:

grep XkbLayout /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I apologize for posting in English here, but it would be greatly appreciated if you could keep us non-German speakers appraised of the current progress of Thorhammer.

(I installed RC5A over RC5 yesterday, just burned RC5B, and am wondering if there's a benefit to installing RC5B over RC5A.)

When the live CD's starting X, it blanks out the window for a few seconds on my computer (using the "nv" driver). All that's needed to bring it back is to wiggle the mouse, but this might confuse some people.

Maybe this is caused by power management and automatic resetting of the clock during boot.

the whole nvidia script does not contain XkbLayout.