All good,
Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:49 +1300, Ralph Stoker wrote:Someone dig out their "Installer's CD" with parted(?) from Installfest - you may get Ubuntu on there quicker/also..
seems my Linux has been fried!
I'd like to bring my computer to the meeting on Weds and re -install SuSE.
Would appreciate a 'mentor' for the disk partitioning / re-sizing using the in-built SuSE partitioner...
Anyone else out there who might 'like' to help on the night would be much
appreciated....I don't wish to distract from the planned programme of
events...just quietly plod away in the background.
sounds like a plan, there is a back room if we get too noisy ranting about the fool who (didn't) fix it.
we'll take a further look at the partitions first, just to be sure the have disappeared...
The laptop-wireless-enabled (incl Nick) may benefit from knowing that we should have a test/temporary, pre-release WirelessWeb (Yobbo Network) 'HotSpot' running on site, giving out ssid's for Internet connectivity.
No huge downloads though please: "host protection policy" (-:
So is that just Ralph & Kelvyn needing setup help on the 1st?
If Vatsala is reading - Wednesday's an excellent time to find out what Linux can & cannot do (easily) on your particular hardware. Usually there are sacrifices in making the transition, and only the user knows if the price is payable. In many cases, currently, it is not.
hth, Rik
