Ok Bun - Thanks for your assistance in getting me off the ground loading KDE...

I finally got it.

I think my difficulty was in two areas... total lack of knowledge of xterm commands and a flakey SD card that would not take the partitioning instructions...

it was a mistake to reflash 2008os - even with the backup - I have to rebuild a lot of what was on the n800 prior to the flash.

We need to assemble the various instructions in one place - like a wiki or something. Going back and forth to your posts, milhouse posts, pronukes page, and the post with the boot to mmc instructions was so cumbersome.

Still - I did get it loaded.

Now... The mmc2 still shows corrupt even though it runs the OS and stores KDE on partition 2... I suspect the format failed on partition 1 using the automatic nupgrade script.

I agree with you that you lots of space on that partition to run the kde.

More to follow in other threads about details of kde.

Thanks Bun!