Sounds like you're just the kind of 'grunt' we need Paul, to keep our
'guns' in support for troubleshooting the hard stuff! My skills are
similarly 'developing'. Correct us if wrong, guys..
Rik
Paul Wilkins wrote:
InfoHelp wrote:
Rex needs an answer here, so I'll kick off a Wiki-style minute/update
that others can enhance or correct. This will help keep things moving
towards 17 July.
I would like to be one of the installers this time around.
What are my qualifications? I am an advanced Windows user with
intermediate Linux skills, wanting to gain more knowledge and
experience on Linux.
Most recently I saved a drive that Partition Magic had screwed up on,
in part due to some linux confusion it was having. I was moving
partitions around and somehow the extended partition managed to start
right at the beginning, encompassing the primary partition along with
everything else. This is a bad thing.
After using a linux boot disc to use fdisk to print out the current
state of things, I worked out how to manually edit the partition table
to put in the values that "should" be there for the extended table and
managed to restore access to my partitions (data, music, pictures)
Aside from that I began some years ago with Redhat, have since learned
a lot about WinXP (yeah, it's trouble) and last year went on a distro
exploration, starting with Redhat 9 again, moving on to Mandrake 9.2,
and after getting it to work mostly according to my needs, became
despondant about things such as obscure video codecs, printer
subsystem, sound capabilities and website compatibility (ifilm.com)
before I fell in disgrace back to WinXP. Still, mark this up as hard
won experience.
I'll get going on Mandrake 10 next week and see how things have
improved. Are we yet able to have music playing without interferring
with system sound events? It would be nice to not have the computer
make all of its event noises in between songs. I could turn off event
sounds, but that would defeat the purpose of having background music.
Anyhow, when the installfest comes along, would there be any objection
to my being there lending a hand?
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