I'm sad I missed this! Can you let me know when the next install-fest might be? On 11/12/08, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Brian Dolan-Goecke wrote: > >> This months PenguinsUnbound.net meeting >> will be Saturday November 8th, 2008 ** Tomorrow ** at TIES, >> 1667 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul, MN 55108 >> from 9:00am to 5pm > > > The installfest was really great for me. Many people were there > struggling with their various tricky problems. I was one of them. There > were a few quite helpful people around -- Brian was especially good. > > In my case I need to install a software RAID (RAID1 -- drives mirror each > other) and it was good to have some help with that. We had to use the > Ubuntu 8.10 "alternate" installation CD. It took a few tries but we did > it. Then the big problem -- my video card wasn't working! Huge hassle > and I left without working X. But when I got home I did some googling and > I figured out the problem. Now it's working great. (Unfortunately I had > to install a non-free ATI Radeon driver, oh well.) > > I was there for more than 5 hours fighting with this machine. Where else > can you find people who will hang out and help you for five hours?! It > was a huge favor to me and I really appreciate it. I also ate pizza, > donuts, soda and coffee (healthy stuff!) and didn't pay for any of it, > which seems wrong, but I tried to pay and they wouldn't take my money. > Maybe I can pay next time or send a check to someone. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >