John Oliver wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:24:35AM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote: >> Nowadays, since Linux is so easy to install, the InstallFest customers >> seem to be about 20% new installations, and 80% people who have run >> into problems after installation. Sometimes fairly exotic and >> puzzling problems. >> >> I suppose it would have been a good thing to keep a record of exotic >> problems and their solutions. Or non-solutions sometimes. > > Sounds like something a wiki would be good for! The "price of > admission" for getting help with the bizarro problems ought to be to do > a writeup of what the symptoms were, the underlying cause, and how it > was resolved. >
Interesting idea. Relying on people to do wiki as homework doesn't seem to work, but maybe.. ..having a terminal open to a wiki at the installfest, and asking people to log their problem and outcome? Would that work? Regards, .. jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
