[GRLUG] Next meeting? - install fest in Feb ?

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 07:22:08 EST 2007


I'll check on room availability.  The room GRC4LUG meets in right now
isn't suited to time overruns.

On 1/24/07, Bill Creswell <billcreswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> location for installfest?
>
> On 1/24/07, Al Tobey <tobert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can bring all the goodies to do installations of ddwrt/OpenWRT on
> > some Linksys routers if anybody is interested.    It's a great way to
> > make it easy to use fwbuilder for your firewall policy.
> > http://www.fwbuilder.org/
> >
> > I also have some CentOS 4.4, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Fedora Core 6 media
> > around here somewhere ...
> >
> > I may even have my tablet PC reinstalled with FC6 or Ubuntu by the
> > time this comes around or maybe I'll do it there.
> >
> > I'll also help people install World of Warcraft on Wine/Linux if they want.
> >
> > -Al Tobey
> >
> > On 1/23/07, Szymon Machajewski <SMachaje at grcc.edu> wrote:
> > > It looks like the fest is on!
> > >
> > > I changed the Wiki.
> > >
> > > >>> Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> 1/23/2007 8:07 pm >>>
> > > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 19:48 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> > > > GRC4LUG had a UNIX student stop by today who would like to install
> > > > Linux on a dual-proc Pentium 3 1GHz with a SCSI RAID array.  He was
> > > > interested when I mentioned the possibility of an installfest on Feb
> > > > 6.
> > > >
> > > > I figured it would provide an interesting challenge.  I've never
> > > seen
> > > > hardware RAID on a Linux box before.  Plus, it gets him more
> > > involved
> > > > with Linux, by having a box at home.
> > >
> > > Hardware RAID controllers? Bah, nuttin' to it. Except with a boot LUN
> > > defined over 2TB in size. Currently distributed GRUB (GRand Unified
> > > Bootloader) has issues with boot disks over 2TB and EFI based BIOS.
> > > LILO
> > > can do the 2TB+ but is a bit cantankerous.
> > >
> > > Curious as to what controller it is. Huh?
> > >
> > > I might also be convinced to show up.
> > > --
> > > greg, greg at gregfolkert.net
> > >
> > > The technology that is
> > > Stronger, better, faster:  Linux
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