Debian

[sportcrazy60]

Can you recommend me a full-fledged distro that has a starting desktop(i have to select a different X server in DSL)
EDIT: now my network controller stopped working and any linux cannot access anything thats in IDE secondary.

[rokytnji]

Can you recommend me a full-fledged distro that has a starting desktop

It's recent and Debian Based.

kanotix.com :: GNU Linux Live system based on Debian, optimized for HD-install and high performance

[moksha]

Can you recommend me a full-fledged distro that has a starting desktop(i have to select a different X server in DSL)
EDIT: now my network controller stopped working and any linux cannot access anything thats in IDE secondary.

simply MEPIS 8.5
debian based KDE desktop, great community support at mepislovers dot org
I think M 11 has gone alpha I know it is close but I like 8.5 and 8 in either 64 or 32 bit versions

[sportcrazy60]

But if debain and Debian based ubuntu fail. I'd want a distro thats not debian based(for once)

[yancek]

You could try PCLinuxOS which is based on Mandriva and is usually in the top 10 at distrowatch and has good support/forums.

Same for Opensuse although you will probably need at least 1GB RAM.

[moksha]

But if debain and Debian based ubuntu fail. I'd want a distro thats not debian based(for once)

Sorry I misunderstood what you wanted, I do not have enough experience with other distro's to give solid advice. Check out fedora or mandriva through there respective communities. Good Luck

[glene77is]

Sport,
(1) You could try TinyCore Linux.
I have been running it OK working on M$ XP partition daily.
(2) Puppy Linux 4.3 was a custom core.
Have been using Puppy 5.25 workng on M$ XP partition daily.
(3) I have used Ubuntu on NTFS files for the last year.
Not a single error. Use it daily.

In this mix, I have to play with differing permission setups,
but can always read/write to the NTFS partition.

good luck.
glene77is

[sportcrazy60]

I have now used this computer with M$ Windows a long time and just decided that I can't stand the M$ lag. And I now tried a brand new Ubuntu cd, I pressed"Install Ubuntu"( 11.10, was it Ocelot?, i don't remember the name) and it hanged. The disc has been used to do one successful install on a friend's computer. Does Mandriva have something like the "Ubuntu Software Center" where you can download apps?

EDIT: Just tried Fedora, udevd error while at last part of livecd loading. I am thinking that this may havesomething to do with GNOME.

[sportcrazy60]

Yes.
Itgives the udevd worker (usually [65]) failed while handling (something)
with ubuntu cd/dvd/wubi, the debian cd/dvd/win32loader.exe.
No Linux flavor can access the disk drive.
I swapped them so my hdds are in the primary ide(before that it was in secondary ide) i read somewhere that might help.I'll try win32loader again drom goodbye-microsoft.com.I'll message here if it gives me the udevd error.

MAndriva hanged on the loading screen (woth the spinning thingy on bottom) I think it may be a kernel udev conflict as moksha said earlier (05-23-2011).