[tslug] InstallFest

2002-09-21 Thread Nathaniel Green
Everyone, The InstallFest was a great success. We got 5 installs completed and dealt with only a few _fairly_ minor complications. There were 3 Red Hat installs, one Debian and one Mandrake (i think). It was a lot of fun - I was so excited that I went home to work on some Java code and end

[tslug] Re: InstallFest~Linux installation help

2002-09-21 Thread Brian Stock
Just to let everyone know, lest the list become inundated with offers to help, I agreed to help Ashley install Linux on her box. An HP laptop running XP, luckily there's already a partition set up for Linux. I'm sure any links to beginner's Linux information would be helpful though, so anyone wh

[tslug] Re: InstallFest~Linux installation help

2002-09-21 Thread Brandon Chisham
What kind of system are you planning on putting it on? What distro do you want? Desktops with Win 9x are pretty easy to install, but laptops with win 2k or XP are more difficult. If it is using NTFS, partition magic will be required to resize the windows partition. If there is a FAT 32 (Windows

[tslug] InstallFest~Linux installation help

2002-09-21 Thread Ashley
I need someone that can help me put Linux on my computer? I had things going on today and couldn't make it to installfest. Sorry about the inconvience. Anyone's help would be great!!! THANKS!!! Ashley Murdock - To get off this

[tslug] DVD to VCD

2002-09-21 Thread Benjamin Story
Hi all, I've been trying to get drip compiled so that I can make backups of some of my DVDs, but I can't get it to compile even after compiling all of the prereq packages. Does anyone know of a utility (preferably with a Mandrake RPM) that I can use to do the DVD rip and conversion? -- -- Be