[wlug_org] Installfest suggestions

[Jamie Baddeley]

Are you offering to help and actually do stuff for/at the installfest?

we have CD production sorted. Brent will be giving an update in general
soon.

jamie

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 10:34, JP wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> This might be too specific for this early stage, but I
> wonder if we need to plan for:
> 
> 1) People with older machines.  Anything less than a
> P300 will run like a dog with OOo on it (and no those
> machines aren't obsolete!).  We could either offer an
> alternative "low-spec" install, or make it clear in
> any promotion that a certain minimum spec is required.
> 
> 2) People who have WinNT/2K/XP monopolising their only
> HD partition.  Most of the distros I have installed in
> the past (RedHat 7, Debian 3.0, Knoppix) weren't able
> to repartition the drive without wiping existing data
> (FAT is no problem, but NTFS is).  I understand the
> latest version of SUSE does a good job of co-existing
> with XP.  Otherwise, someone could bring a legal
> version of Partition Magic?  I think the qtparted
> people have also been working on relocating NTFS
> partitions.  We need a solution anyway.
> 
> Finally, I think it's probably important to set
> expectations reasonably low.  I have all the
> peripherals but one (Winmodem) working on my main
> machine at home, but it took a lot of work, including
> kernel patching.  People should come along realising
> that they are going to get support for
> HD/CD-ROM/Network cards/Modem (unless unsupported
> Winmodem)/USB devices with common drivers and probably
> not much else. Things like TV-Out, TV cards, wireless
> cards, video cards with DRI support are likely to be
> iffy at most.  Even printers could be tricky.  As for
> laptops, don't even get me started.
> 
> Perhaps on the advertising we could put something like
> "come along to find out about [wonderful OS | free OS
> | non-buggy OS | ... ] and let us help you put a basic
> Linux install on your computer without touching your
> existing Windows programs."  (I'll never be a marketer
> with long sentences like that, but you get the idea --
> a /basic/ install).
> 
> Happy to help out where I can with burning CDs,
> downloading (only dial-up but I'm still happy to do
> downloads of anything as long as it's obviously legal)
> etc.  Just let me know.
> 
> Cheers
> Tony
> 
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