Ok, I'll send this ahead of time, just in case: I've got two sets of disks for Gentoo: rc1.4 Pentium3 and rc1.4 x86 Box: Dell Dimension T450 450MHz PIII 256 Mb SDRAM IDE controller (on board) has 2 HD (1 13Gb hd 2 partitions with (winXP Pro and win200server) and 1 10Gb hd (NTFS)) 1 zip drive 1 DVD drive 2nd IDE controller (PCI) has 2HD (1 8Gb hd 4 partitions (/boot partition, swap partition, and 2 linux root partitions) and 1 40Gb hd 5 partitions (NTFS partition, 4 linux root partitions (1 reserved for Gentoo) 1 CDRW drive HP PSC1200 all-in-one printer/scanner/copier (all works with Mandrake) USB mouse NetGear FA310TX NIC 19" Dell monitor (usually 1280x1024 or 1024x840 res) nVidia GEForce4 MX400 64Mb vid card Creative SoundBlaster sound card and a meazely Compaq webcam (not really worried about getting installed) Think there'll be any problems? :-P Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Dayley" To: Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 9:50 AM Subject: Re: to be installed > First off I will state the obvious two points: > > 1. If you want to be SURE all of your stuff will work right when you get > home from the Instal Fest, you must bring it all to be setup. Linux > stability and hardware configuration has gotten WAY easier in the past > year or so BUT, the only way to be completely SURE it will work is to > use the exact equipment. Having to learn how to configure your printer > or something else on your own, with help from this list, may not be a > bad thing for some. But, maybe you don't want to have to do that. > > 2. If you want to be sure a monitor, keyboard, etc. will be available to > do your install, you have to bring your own. Yes, PLUGers bring extras > but what if they are all used up? You get to sit and wait instead of > installing. > > Judge your risk on these two against the "pain" of lugging your > equipment to the event. > > George Gambill wrote: > > First, we don't have any volunteers (yet) to provide Gentoo CD's. > > Therefore, bringing your CD's is probably a good idea. > > If you have your own CDs, why not bring them? Compared to transporting > a 21" monitor, what's 3-5 CDs more? ;^) > > > Second, We should have extra monitors, keyboards and mouse(s). I trust the > > PLUGers monitoring this list will correct me as needed. > > Let's say you borrow a monitor and it has a higher resolution that your > one at home. The distro installer may decide to configure the higher > resolution as default and if you and your helper don't know or forget to > change it, you will have a blank screen when you fire up X at home. > What if your home mouse is USB and the only mouse you could borrow was > serial? Can you reconfigure or will the distro reconfigure for you when > you get home? Maybe, but what if not? > > Personally, I'd bring it all. > > > The printer should not be an issue provided the printer drivers are on the > > Gentoo CD's. No need to bring it unless you want to be really certain. > > Printers can be tricky, depending on what brand/model it is. Ask on the > list ahead of time. The printer support is great and easy for most > popular printers. Others may not be that way. Find out the risk of > needing help before the event and bring the printer or not based on > knowledge. Google and this list are great resources. > > > The scanner is an area I have had no experience with so I will yield to the > > groups (PLUGs) opinion. Folks, what do you think? I would recommend > > bringing it. > > Scanners are like printers. Find out before hand. My scanner is SCSI > and Just Works(TM). :^) > > > The box is always good to bring. > > Um, yea. > > > The desk ... probably not. 8-) > > Most desks are very Linux compatible and need no configuration or > adjustments to work with Linux. In fact, the very first Linux was > universally desk compatible before it could even run on a CPU! Even BSD > had desk compatibility very early in it's development. > > Alan > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >