Lets take this conversation to the installfest mailing list - saves confusion.
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:01, InfoHelp wrote: > 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?
