Robert Fisher wrote:
g'day robert & other attendees, arrived home alright & first thing mrs b wants to know is "can i still use the pc??!!", thanks to those late stayers that helped to reconfigure lilo & at least get mandrake & winxp booting.Dear Diary,
Friday night. Wade's huosehold effects were still stored in the garage. Moved him to his new flat and got home about nine to set up for the Gentoo Installfest in the garage. We are squashed into a small place for a while, while we build a new house so imagine the garage with a sleepout at one end and lined with shelves and boxes - leaving an area of about 6 metres by 3 metres. Add to that my computer, our server, a fridge, a coffee machine, 4 tables, a laptop and 2 LTSP machines for browsing, 6 laptops for distcc compiling and an extra switch. I went to bed happy knowing that everything was set up for the 6 people coming to have Gentoo installed tomorrow. (Including 6 sets of printed instructions)
Saturday Morning. Nick arrives early as arranged to set up his machine as a mirror and Binaries host and we waited for the fun to start (happy that our planning would pay off). The first 2 to turn up with their machines were not even on our list of "installees" so we got a bit worried that we might be a little squashed. So 6 became 8 but we did get everybody in and connected and at the end of the day most went home with a working Gentoo system complete with desktop and heaps of packages. Poor Howard though. First he could not get here early. Secondly he had a hardware problem. Lastly he had trouble with Grub. Eventually we got him booting with LILO (and he can still boot into Mandrake and Windows so he can continue installing packages at his leisure now that the base system works). I went to friends and still saw the whole of the Super 12 semi-final. All in all - Not a bad day.
Follow Ups: Guys, do not hesitate to ask questions. It was a pretty hectic day but now that your Gentoo systems are going the real pleasure begins. Remember to put your make.conf files back to normal for emerging pleasure. My mirrors are as per this line (one line):- GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://203.96.92.95/gentoo http://linux.citylink.co.nz/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo";
When I finish with a compile farm I run:- /usr/bin/distcc-config --set-hosts "localhost" There are probably other ways as well but this seems to work for me.
Robert Fisher www.fisher.net.nz
BOFH Excuse #103:
operators on strike due to broken coffee machine
those cell phone calls were from my wife - our youngest son & his partner have just had their 1st baby (our first grandchild!!) so am about to make a rush trip back to sunny qld for a week to change into a grandfather/grandpa & grow a few grey hairs.
won't have time to look at my gentoo install "options" until i get back sometime after next week.
once again thanks to all the interested onlookers/helpers, i learnt quite a bit (being a relatively new convertee to linux, i'm more used to point/click than cli) & obviously a lot more coming my way. btw thanks chris for pointing out my keyboard mapping problem - always wondered why i had to "double press" the " key!!! :)
cheers
howard
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