On Monday 31 January 2005 10:34 pm, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> If this weekend's InstallFest is any example of things to come, we'll
> get a wide variety of requests. Everything from simple installs to
> hardware RAID to Gentoo.
What were the total results? How many installs, other successes, failures,
people, etc.?
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> doing real damage. One InstallFest someone brought a laptop with all
> the company financial records and mentioned that he had to meet with the
> auditors on Monday!
Augh! That is a big, bad situation. Lesson: Don't forget to ask about data
backups and danger of data loss.
> How about an IRC channel during the InstallFest? Might be an easy way
> to ask everyone for help without leaving the install you're working on.
> I know a question came up Saturday about hardware RAID on Dell 620
> Precision Workstations that I could have answered (and saved a couple of
> hours frustration) except I was in another room doing an install.
This is why I strongly encourage that all the installs happen in the same
room. Even better would be to have all the people, the entire install event,
in the same room. Greeting and triage could be done in that "lobby" area
with the nice tables but I would like to see even that moved into the same
room as the everyone else. So much easier to share.
Doing IRC during the fest is a great idea. Someone do that!
> An example of this is Fedora Core 3 doesn't play MP3s out of the box.
> Playing MP3s is something that most people want to do with a computer
> and the solution isn't hard[1], but we need to know the solution and
> make it one of the standard things we do each time Fedora is installed.
I'd suggest that using the livna.org repositories is a better solution to
getting all the things Fedora does not come with.
http://rpm.livna.org/
Alan
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