On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 21:14, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Barry wrote: > > >Well what a day, thanks be that Saturday night & Sunday were time to > >relax. > > > Indeed!
The day was a roaring success. But my feet have only just recovered. > > >It would be nice to have some feedback from the installers (and > >installees) on the success or otherwise of the efforts. > > > The first comment I'd make is that there were far too many punters > there. I seemed to be spending my whole day trying to be in about 8 > places all at the same time. Next time can we please control the number > of punters to some thing a bit more manageable? Say about half or two > thirds. Maybe if we try to match up installers to installees before the day. Now we have some idea of space requirements etc we can also plan here too. I have been racking my brains for a room on campus bigger than the ones we had and able to accomodate us. Anybody got any ideas? > Next time would it be an idea to see if the owners of the coffee > dispenser in the hall would like to be there to serve up their wares. > Even if we do our own refreshments next time could we organize a 'coffee > & bickkie runner' to bring it around. My god yes I could have done with refreshments along the way. > > >I suggest recording number,distro, machine, success or otherwise; if a > >failure the perceived reason for future reference so here goes.... > > > >1,Peanut 9.2 failed, P166 64k, faulty distro got to login, no X not > >enough probing etc modutils for an earlier kernel, considered the > >machine OK would try another distro. > > > I have installed Peanut successfully on that kind of hardware. I don't > think it is Peanut itself causing problems. > I have the feeling either that the video card was probably not > supported, or that the hardware was faulty. Did you check that possibility? > Are you certain that the CD was ok? Did you check its md5sum? Some planning into getting a known good distro for really old machines would be good and also one of those boot from CD jobbies too. I tried to install Redhat on young Ben Devine's machine with 16M of RAM and Redhat refused to even start. If we had a distro to install on these kind of machines that can offer the most on these sorts of hardware things could have gone a bit sweeter. > > 1) I successfully installed an IPCop firewall, and oversaw a RedHat one. > > 2) I wish I had known about: > > http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/ > <http://www.icewalkers.com/jump.php?id=237&src=home> > > before I gave this child a copy of toms root and boot diskette so that > he could play with Linux on his truely ancient Toshiba portable. > <http://www.icewalkers.com/jump.php?id=237&src=home> > 3) There seemed to be a lot of punters milling around not really knowing > what to do. We need to have the handout a bit more developed. > > btw, did any of the Mac people get linux installed on their Apples? I think one the people turned up but just to have a nosey. What I think we need here is someone arranged who knows at least the first thing about a Linux install on PPC hardware. Another possibility is just installing a non-Apple windowing system on top of Darwin instead of Apples proprietary job. This set up could amount to a similar sort of setup to Linux anyway and it's all open source. > > >Hope i'm not on someone else's territory, > > > I don't think so. The territory is public domain :-) > > >and I will collate any replies received. > > > > > Thank you. > -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch New Zealand phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 Fax 3642222
