Gareth Williams wrote:
On Thursday 12 June 2003 10:48, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
This is the list so far.
Installers / helpers ====================
Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chris Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Installees ========== Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lance Blackler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dave Lilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If I've put someone in the wrong group, please squeak.
*squeak*
I would like to be in one or both of the above groups.
I have a P166 laptop - it only has a 3GB hard disk, so I thought I'd:
$ dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/my_desktop_machine/laptop_hd_image
That way I can always recover the old system using a tomsrtbt and the reverse 'dd'. At least, in theory ;-)
So, I want to install Gentoo on my laptop, but I can bring my desktop machine to help with compiling (1GHz celeron, Debian GNU/Linux, gcc 2.95.4 - what's the story with knoppix with distcc? I think someone posted that it has gcc 3.2.3 ? if so, are we good to go with that?).
I can probably also bring an 8 port switch, if we're pushed for switches.
However, the date - 22nd June. Ack. I've got final exams (for uni, 300 level comp sci) on the 23rd and 27th. So I was kinda hoping people were planning on sooner (like this weekend), or later (like sometime in July), but not that pesky period inbetween ;-)
But if everyone else wants the 22nd... looks like I might be out of luck :-(
So the date's no good for me, but otherwise it'd like to come, it sounds like good fun. I say put me on both lists because, although I haven't used gentoo before, hopefully I can still be of help - once my machine is happily compiling away ;-)
I think perhaps we don't need to distinguish formally between "intstallers" and "installees" like we do with a big installfest. It's more just a group of CLUG memebers getting together to play around with Gentoo over a couple of [insert beverage of choice]. As such (all these people are CLUG members), everyone already runs linux (no? is anyone intending to bring a windows box along?), so the number of complete linux newbies will be low / zero. So I imagine it more as a "everyone helps everyone" scenario, nothing as formal as our other installfests. What do people think?
And if so, then we only need 2 bits of information: - who is coming (total number of people) - what they're bringing (total number of machines & ethernet switches / hubs)
Cheers, Gareth
