[wellylug] Mini installfest

[Pete Black]

Make sure you are familiar with the various kernel args (noapic, 
nolapic, apci=off etc.) if you are installing on unknown laptops since 
many won't boot without one or more of these.

Also, make sure you make it clear that not all hardware may be 
supported, specifically winmodems and wireless LAN connections. These 
issues are usually solvable but it can take some downloading and 
compiling.

Dual boot issues are reasonably common too, so somebody will need to 
know what to do to get Linux and Windows coexisting, and how to fix the 
situation when the 'boot windows' entry is not present in GRUB/LILO.

Those are some issues that  can potentially be very difficult for the 
newbie to resolve.

Have  LiveCDs around or available to be burnt if people want to test 
things out, and its a good idea to give everybody a LiveCD copy of 
Knoppix/MEPIS/Ubuntu or similar in case they mess up and need to fall 
back to a 'known good' system.

Any simple written documentation you can provide is also handy for 
newbies, so a small bash reference and a brief guide to websites where 
documentation, support and news can be found would be nice to have as 
well.

Hope that helps

-Pete



On 16/05/2005, at 3:34 PM, s gallaghan wrote:

> Hi all
> 	I'm a teacher at the New Zealand international school and we have some
> students that are interested in installing linux. We are planning to 
> run an
> 'install fest' for them.
> 	I was wondering if there were any potential problems to look out for?
>
> cheers
> Stephen
>
>
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