Cheers
J
Nick Rout wrote:
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?
