well, today is the big day. we had 4 cancellations, but we're still going
to have quite a crowd:
10am Ananth Shankaran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
10am Harold Soh [EMAIL PROTECTED] HP Omnibook XE3 fussy laptop
10am Chor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
10am Melody Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
10am Chester Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
10am Lee Dutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4.3 GB - small (no dualboot)
11am Aleksandr Zingorenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
11am Sigrid Roehling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
11am christopher chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
12am Jeremy Dalbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] CDRW
12am Terry Toy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
12am Derek Sappington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1pm Jennifer Wei [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1pm David Wei Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] USB
2pm Phong Tat [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop; USB
2pm Zhao-Hong Mai [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3pm Seyed Ahmad [EMAIL PROTECTED] scsi, usb
3pm Doug Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 386/25
3pm Kevin Murakoshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop PIII
3pm Michael Phan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.2Gb dualboot small!
*please* do not serve anyone who is not on this list. the installers are:
* William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Henry House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Foo Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Mark Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- afternoon
* Evan Scarisbrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Seth Nagao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Roland Minden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nicole Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lastly, i wrote up some highlights of using fips. if you haven't read the
fips docs, at least scan this before making any dual boots.
Peter's Quick Notes on FIPS for Linux Installfests
==================================================
Some personal notes I've taken for using FIPS at LUGOD installfests.
Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any questions.
1. SCSI Hard drives
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FIPS will only work with Hard Disk BIOSes that use interrupt 13h for low
level disk access. This may not be true for some older SCSI controllers.
Proceed with caution if you're splitting a SCSI hard drive.
2. Partition Types and cluster size
-----------------------------------
FIPS will not work on ext2 nor will it work on extended DOS partitions.
It won't work if you already have 4 partitions.
It will only work on disks with a sector size of 512 bytes.
3. Data at end of hard drive after defrag
-----------------------------------------
a) Windows swapfile isn't moved by defrag. You must uninstall it using the
386enhanced part of the Control Panel and reinstall it after using FIPS.
b) The progs IMAGE and MIRROR, store hidden files in the last sector of the
disk. These files are image.idx and mirorsav.fil. Delete them before using
FIPS (they'll be recreated next time you run mirror). In the root directory:
attrib -r -s -h image.idx
attrib -r -s -h mirorsav.fil
del \image.idx
del mirorsav.fil
c) Search for hidden files.
d) DO NOT MOVE DOS HIDDEN FILES ibmbio.com, ibmdos.com or something similar.
These reside in the first sectors of the disk anyhow.
4. Drive Letters, CDROM
-----------------------
Drive letters other than C: might change. This is fine. If MSCDEX is
called in autoexec.bat with the /L option (to force a drive letter), you
may need to change the specified letter to avoid conflict with hard drive
letters.
5. If Linux is already installed
--------------------------------
A change in the partition table might mean that the device number of the
DOS partition might change (hda3 may become hda1). This won't affect
booting, but you'll have to edit /etc/fstab.
6. Before Starting
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Make sure you're in DOS, not a multitasking OS like Windows, OS/2 or Linux.
Make sure no disk cache progs are running, like Smartdrive. Old versions
of FIPS didn't report the correct number of disks on some BIOS's (esp
Gateway Pentiums). Make sure you're using FIPS 2.0.
7. Master Boot Record
---------------------
ALWAYS save a copy of the MBR on a floppy! Let the installee take the
floppy home and explain to them that the floppy will allow us to restore
the system to its original configuration as long as the original partition
is not formated.
8. Chickening Out
-----------------
It is always safe to hit control-C at any point before fips writes to disk.
9. "Info: Partition table inconsistency"
----------------------------------------
If you see this message, it's OK. There are two possible reasons for it.
a) Unused information in the partition table may not have the right value.
But it's unused (redundant info), so it's ok.
b) The disk uses address translation instead of CHS. See LargeDisk howto
for details.
