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DATE | 2007-09-20 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: Instalfest schedule
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From owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Sep 20 09:55:02 2007 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l8KDt01F007758 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:55:02 -0400 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l8KDt0ip007757 for hangout-outgoings; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:55:00 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to owner-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l8KDssHD007753; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:54:56 -0400 Received: (from ruben-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l8KDss54007752; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:54:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:54:54 -0400 From: Ruben Safir To: Alexander Deming , hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: Instalfest schedule Message-ID: <20070920135454.GB7701-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> References: <46F27A52.3040507-at-westnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <46F27A52.3040507-at-westnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 5162 Status: RO Content-Length: 2742 Lines: 59
I fowarded this to hangout-at-nylxs.com where we have a few debian experts. If they don't get back to you soon, email me back. I hope to get another installfest after the Jewish Holidays.
Ruben
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:49:06AM -0400, Alexander Deming wrote: > Dear Ruben. > > Please, tell me the schedule of your install fests. > > Introduction of vista (I do not spell that beast from capital letter) > finally convinced me to switch. I think there are other people with the > same feeling... > > I bought a computer on eBay (Athlon 3200, 1.5GB RAM, 200 GB HD, Sony DVD > RW), tried to install Debian on it and I failed. > > Originally I wanted to make it dual-bootable (Debian and W-ME). I > installed ME, started downloading Debian DVD set. However, after about > an hour the machine restarted every time, download of first disk was > never completed. Probably ME can not handle this much memory. When I get > it to work with Debian, I'll try my remaining W applications (printer, > scanner) with WINE. > > On another machine I downloaded a full set of Debian CDs for AMD64 (21 > disks). Installation always terminates or freezes, every time it happens > on different point. I suspect the machine has a physical problem, > however I am unable to identify it. > Latest Knoppix starts, successfully plays sound from a USB flash drive. > However, when I try Open Office (at the same time with MPlayer), it > unexpectedly restarts (from the point where the voice says "Initiating > Start-Up sequence"). So, it successfully handles USB and sound; SiS > onboard network card is not recognized. > > I did my home work, now I need help. > > I'll be in the city next week, this Saturday to next weekend. Hope after > that I'll be able to start using my new machine with the full strength > of Linux, including printing, MySQL and peercasting. > > Sincerely, Alexander Deming.
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