Installfest

[Eric T. Roach]

I agree.  I've been having trouble getting Linux to recognize a second cd-rom

drive; cdrw, and would really appreciate some help.  It may be something as
simple as having device order set up wrong, or BIOS settings, but I find the
HOWTOs are all pretty marginal.

Eric

Adam McDougall wrote:

> I'll let someone else get into detail on how the event went but I thought
> it went pretty well.  I tossed the idea towards Ben that we might have a
> followup session sometime to help the people who already have linux
> installed, something to help them out with some customization, maybe a
> little bit of configuring, help with package management/upgrading, and
> perhaps customizing kernels.   Wouldn't have to go as far as kernels but
> some people could probably use a bunch of pointers on how to do specific
> stuff like where to get into the configuration and installation of things
> that werent already done, like perhaps nics (I dont think anyone actually
> setup networking in the installfest) and simple networking.  Maybe even
> giving direction towards things like ip_masq and samba.  In some ways it
> wouldnt have to be as intrusive as the installfest because we ended up
> with some people adding/changing hardware and even one computer get half
> replaced before we actually got to installing.  If everyone came with
> something already installed, we wouldnt have to worry as much about if
> linux would even install, because it already is.  Feedback?
>
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