[vox-if] Call for volunteers

[Mark K. Kim]

Back in the MacOS 8.x days, Macs came with a rescue CD of sorts that also
had a partitioning software.  I'm not sure if it'll be necessary but might
as well as the guy to bring all the CDs and manuals he got.

-Mark


On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Ken Bloom wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:11:26PM -0800, Seth Nagao wrote:
> > I was going through the list of RSVP's and currently we have 8,
> > including a PowerPC installee.  Does anyone know how this goes, are
> > there any particular pitfalls, and would anyone like to volunteer for
> > this install?
> >
> > --Seth (who doesn't want to bungle a PPC Linux install)
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:10, Seth Nagao wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > The Installfest is this Sunday (2/15/04), and I'm polling to see who's
> > > coming.  Volunteers?
> > >
> > > --Seth
>
> Last time we tried one of these, it was a year or two ago - back in
> the days of Mandrake 8.0(?). Mandrake's installer didn't want to
> work in graphical mode, so we did it in text mode. The other pitfall
> we ran into is that we worked for hours thinking we had unpartitioned
> space to put our linux install into, only to find out that what we
> thought was unpartitioned space was really an A/UX partition (he had
> done that thinking it set aside space that we could use for UNIX). We
> cleared that out with Apple's drive setup.
>
> After the install, the install (or a web page, I don't recall) told us
> to enter a couple of cryptic commands in OpenFirmware to make the
> bootloader work.
>
> This install was done with a MacOS X installation already existant on
> the computer. If anybody can fill in more details, it would be nice,
> because somehow I recall that in the end he was going to try using
> Debian/PPC, but I don't know why or what the snag was, or what I'm
> recalling wrong, or whether Debian/PPC was an intermediate idea before
> I figured out what was wrong with the partitions or ...
> DETAILS, PLEASE! HELP ME REMEMBER!
>
> I expect Mandrake (which is what he said he wants) to be easier this
> time around. We will also have the option of using a Gentoo LiveCD or
> a Knoppix PPC to use our normal Linux diagonstic tools on the computer
> (I plan to start downloading this as soon as I get to my apartment),
> or possibly even for the install if all else fails.
>
> --
> I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment.
> See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
> My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about
> signing the key. ***** My computer can't give you viruses by email. ***
>

-- 
Mark K. Kim
AIM: markus kimius
Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/
Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci
Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=13046
PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E  5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE
PGP key available on the homepage