I downloaded Mepis 6.0 on Friday after hearing that is the most user friendly Desktop OS(some say a close call betn. PCLOS).
Pre-Install Woes:
I burned in a CD and on trying to boot in my Dell D610 and it gave some Hardware errors. It has WinXP Professional in its SATA HDD.
Now this laptop boots w/o issues Live CDs, Ubuntu Dapper, Kububtu Dapper, Knoppix 5.01, Knoppix 4.01, Dream Linux(sans networking or access to the Windows HDD).

New Downloaded ISO:
So I threw the burnt CD to the trash can, re-downloaded the Mepis ISO from one of the mirrors burnt a new CD and now used my HP Pavilion A430N desktop. After checking that the Live CD was working(I was not able to mount my HDA1 and HDA2 which I can when I use Knoppix) I thought that I would install it on HDB.

I had a secondary Maxtor PATA(7200 RPM) for my Linux experimentation. I loaded Suse Linux 10.1 in the Maxtor, and after some initial issues with the Updater and I was able to install SMART and download some upgrades. I wanted to add Mepis 6.0 to my Linux arsenal.

Install to HDB:
Used QTParted to create a /root 20 GB partition a 1GB swap partition and assumed the remaining 130+GB is the existing Linux Suse. After the s/w partitioned, it asked me if i need to replace GRUB on the MBR(which was the Suse GRUB 1.5). I said yes.

Post-Install Woes
After I rebooted it now takes nearly 20s to load GRUB after the POST process. With SuSe the GRUB gets loaded 5-7s. Then the show-stopper is the following about the following error when I enter the user ID and password(both root and non root)


Error setting up inter-process communication for KDE. Message returned was
Could not read network Connection List
.root/.DCOPserver_Mepis Computer_0
Please check if "dcopserver" program is running.

I am not able to go further. I am not able to access my SuSE partition nor I am able to enter Mepis. Thank God that I am able to boot Windows.
Can anybody help.