Just out of curiosity - how many machines were installed in total? > -----Original Message----- > From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:mulix@;actcom.co.il] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:43 AM > To: Adir Abraham > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: The Haifux Linux-Day 2003 - Impressions and summarize > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:35:39AM +0200, Adir Abraham wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > This wednesday (6/11/2002) we've had an installation party, in Adut > > area, the Technion. The installation process included > Mandrake 9.0 and > > RedHat 8.0. > > Many people also inquired about debian and freebsd, and there > was a slackware box present as well. > > > The Day started quite calmly, as an installed-person > arrived once per > > 15 or even 20 minutes. It continued like that till 15:00 > > approximately. At 15:00, though, more people started to > arrive, mostly > > to hear the lectures and to check what's all the mess > about, and Meir > > gave his lecture at 15:30. Unfortunately, Shlomi Fish who > was supposed > > to do the lecture of 12:30pm, did not do it. > > Nor did Muli, who replaced him, because only one person > showed up for it. For future instaparties, we might wish to > have two or even three reruns of the lecture in the afternoon > and evening. > > > I estimate that approximately 100 people arrived at least to see > > what's going on (this also includes the installed-persons). > > Who had loads of fun talking about Linux. You don't have to > be an installer or installee to show up and have fun... > just... a geek. (no offense intended to anyone, I carry the > term proudly). > > > I hope that you've enjoyed the event! > > I certainly did. > > A couple of Linux related tips from the weirder problems that we've > seen: > > 1. Always, and I do mean always, run 'tail -f > /var/log/messages' in a terminal when debugging a kernel > problem. The kernel gives you useful information - use it. An > annoying NIC on laptop problem was solved this way - turns > out we were trying to load the wrong module for this no name > card and it needed 8139too.o instead. > > 2. SMP kernel crashes during boot with 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 were > solved by passing 'noapic' to the kernel during boot. > 'single' and 'init=/bin/sh' are very useful as well. > > That's it, thanks to everyone who showed up, it was great > fun. See you again next time! > > -- > Muli Ben-Yehuda > http://www.mulix.org/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace > /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ > Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? > http://www.mulix.org/cv.html > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run > the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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