On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:06:25 +1300 Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > >Mandrake virtually installs itself in 20 mins or less on current hardware. > > > ... if you know what you're doing, which I didn't. Overall, it took me > about two weeks in what little spare time I have, plus two hours of > Greg's time. Finally, once I had everything successfully partitioned, > and knew exactly what to do, I did successfully install Mandrake in > about 45 minutes. > > >Installfests just to get Linux installed are no longer a necessity. > > > I'd rather have done all of that at an installfest, it's just that I > wasn't going to wait until March. The best way to learn is to have an > expert available to answer stupid questions. I wonder whether we should include full installations in our workshops, ie a few and often, rather than one big fest a year. maybe even some structured sessions - week one install, week two find your way around the system etc. > > >Forgetting the hassles caused by the shortcomings of the rpm format, which > >have been largely worked around in various ways, installing applications and > >their upgrades is usually as simple as falling off a log. > > > Regrettably, my track record so far is poor. I've tried installing Grip, > Lame, Ogg Vorbis, and a modem driver. So far only Grip has worked. Back > to that installfest. this is obviously distro and package specific, hard to know how to help without details of what you have done and what the results are. > > >Linux's very sucess has had the effect that LUGs are no longer needed for the > >dedicated support of Linux per se. > > > Installation is OK once you know what you're doing. The need for support > won't seriously diminish until you can buy your Linux box ready-to-eat > off the shelf at Harvey Norman. well you can, at dse anyway. there are many places selling computers with linux preinstalled. >Also, I find discussions of "what's the > best tool for a photos web-site" both useful and interesting. > > Douglas (first-time poster). > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
