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" <
adayley@adtron.com>
To: <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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
>
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