Cheers Rex,
Rex Johnston wrote:
InfoHelp wrote:
We need a small list of specialist installers to handle peripherals like printer, scanner, camera etc.. These should not get too tied down with individual installs, but form an on-call floating skill pool.
I'm familiar with HP usb printers and scanners, USB mass storage devices, USB via gphoto2, hotplug etc etc.
Maybe we should roughly divide into two groups - new hands & old, frontline installers & backup fixers?
This prepares us for any mire, with solutions on immediate call. Shifts workload off the most skilled too :-)
Rex Johnston wrote:
I wouldn't mind donating a bit of time. Couldn't make it tonight. Ironically i was installing a new kernel on
a friend's SuSE 9.0 machine.
How'd it go Rex? A useable distro for Installfest, you think?
Actually, yes. The kernel that was packaged with the distro is great until you install something that needs the current source code, like binary modem drivers and suchlike. You install the kernel source code, and lo-and-behold, it's a different revision and everything screws up de-lux.
This was my exact experience with RedHat9. Solved quickly at the time with an external modem, not GCC.
Mandrake's kernel/compiler is/seems much friendlier for add-in source. I'm guessing this will still apply re Fedora, so Mdk10-Official is a top bet.
I ended up installing a vanilla kernel, copying the old /boot/vmlinuz.config to .config, running make oldconfig, doing the chicken thing, firing up make xconfig and fixing up the mistakes the chicken made, and installing that. It works great now.
The rest of SuSE is rather polished. If you want a manual and a nice boxed set, the SuSE is definitely the best option i've seen.
My friend, who had prior been exposed to knoppix, libranet and god only knows what else, loves it.
Rex
I'll do everything I can to have SuSE 9.1 there on the day also, & Volker too ;-)
Rik
-- InfoHelp Services http://www.infohelp.co.nz/linux.html i686 2.4.20-8 RedHat Linux 9.0 - Gnome 2.2.0 - OpenOffice 1.0.2 - Mozilla Mail 1.2.1
