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On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:09, Jason Greenwood wrote: > How does one go about joining the installfest list again? Been a while > since I been on it... > > Cheers > > J > > Nick Rout wrote: > > Lets take this conversation to the installfest mailing list - saves > > confusion. > > > > > > On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:01, InfoHelp wrote: > > > >>Sounds like you're just the kind of 'grunt' we need Paul, to keep our > >>'guns' in support for troubleshooting the hard stuff! My skills are > >>similarly 'developing'. Correct us if wrong, guys.. > >> > >>Rik > >> > >>Paul Wilkins wrote: > >> > >> > >>>InfoHelp wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Rex needs an answer here, so I'll kick off a Wiki-style minute/update > >>>>that others can enhance or correct. This will help keep things moving > >>>>towards 17 July. > >>> > >>>I would like to be one of the installers this time around. > >>> > >>>What are my qualifications? I am an advanced Windows user with > >>>intermediate Linux skills, wanting to gain more knowledge and > >>>experience on Linux. > >>> > >>>Most recently I saved a drive that Partition Magic had screwed up on, > >>>in part due to some linux confusion it was having. I was moving > >>>partitions around and somehow the extended partition managed to start > >>>right at the beginning, encompassing the primary partition along with > >>>everything else. This is a bad thing. > >>> > >>>After using a linux boot disc to use fdisk to print out the current > >>>state of things, I worked out how to manually edit the partition table > >>>to put in the values that "should" be there for the extended table and > >>>managed to restore access to my partitions (data, music, pictures) > >>> > >>>Aside from that I began some years ago with Redhat, have since learned > >>>a lot about WinXP (yeah, it's trouble) and last year went on a distro > >>>exploration, starting with Redhat 9 again, moving on to Mandrake 9.2, > >>>and after getting it to work mostly according to my needs, became > >>>despondant about things such as obscure video codecs, printer > >>>subsystem, sound capabilities and website compatibility (ifilm.com) > >>>before I fell in disgrace back to WinXP. Still, mark this up as hard > >>>won experience. > >>> > >>>I'll get going on Mandrake 10 next week and see how things have > >>>improved. Are we yet able to have music playing without interferring > >>>with system sound events? It would be nice to not have the computer > >>>make all of its event noises in between songs. I could turn off event > >>>sounds, but that would defeat the purpose of having background music. > >>> > >>>Anyhow, when the installfest comes along, would there be any objection > >>>to my being there lending a hand? > > > > > > > >
