On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the xhen at paradise. My real name is Tony Patterson. > I'd be keen to come along on that day, I'll probably have my 7 year old son > in tow, would there be any other kids there to kept him hanging off my > shirttails all day long? :)
Poor kid! Unless he's a mega-genius, he'll be bored to tears! Watching text fly up screens isn't exactly exciting for anybody. > I have a Dell P4 3GHz machine which is dualbooted at the moment with Xp and > my attempts at getting Gentoo up and going. It has a Dell Soundblaster Live > card in it which has defied my repeated attempts to get alsa working. Do I gather that what you're really after is not an install, but a fix-up? i.e. Have you got Gentoo running, bar the sound? > I think I gave 50-60 gb space for the linux partition and it has 1Gb ram. > > I am car deprived at the moment but depending on where it is I don't mind > lugging it over on the bus :) I assume it's a laptop or other (semi)-portable? > > A few people expressed interest in coming along to Robert's Rooomy > > Garage [1] to have gentoo installed.[2] > > > > I have it on good authority that we should have access to the 2005.0 > > release in time to do this on Saturday 9 April. So, can we have some > > confirmation of who will be coming for an install. So far I can recall > > (without wading thru the entire archives): > > > > Robert Himmelman > > Dave (gevad at orcon) > > Shane Hollis (?) > > Xhen (xhen at paradise) > > Lance Blackler > > > > (sorry some people don't use their full name when posting) > > > > There may be others interested? > > > > Those that do want to come, please post the architecture of your > > machine, ie what sort of processor. Some basic specs (Ram, spare HD > > space, cpu speed) would be good too as I don't want to have 10 pentium > > one's turn up on the day :) [3] > > > > > > [1] This is Robert's new garage, large and comfortable, as opposed to > > the more cramped version last year. This time we will be able to swing > > a > > cat, although we may need to BYO cat. > > > > [2] thread started here > > http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0501/msg00800.html > > > > [3] There shouldn't be too many machines that would be completely > > unsuitable for some form of gentoo installation, but I don't want to > > waste people's time either. > > > > -- > > Nick Rout
