On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:35:39AM +0200, Adir Abraham wrote: > Hi all. > > This wednesday (6/11/2002) we've had an installation party, in Adut area, > the Technion. The installation process included Mandrake 9.0 and RedHat > 8.0.
Many people also inquired about debian and freebsd, and there was a slackware box present as well. > The Day started quite calmly, as an installed-person arrived once per 15 > or even 20 minutes. It continued like that till 15:00 approximately. At > 15:00, though, more people started to arrive, mostly to hear the lectures > and to check what's all the mess about, and Meir gave his lecture at > 15:30. Unfortunately, Shlomi Fish who was supposed to do the lecture of > 12:30pm, did not do it. Nor did Muli, who replaced him, because only one person showed up for it. For future instaparties, we might wish to have two or even three reruns of the lecture in the afternoon and evening. > I estimate that approximately 100 people arrived at least to see what's > going on (this also includes the installed-persons). Who had loads of fun talking about Linux. You don't have to be an installer or installee to show up and have fun... just... a geek. (no offense intended to anyone, I carry the term proudly). > I hope that you've enjoyed the event! I certainly did. A couple of Linux related tips from the weirder problems that we've seen: 1. Always, and I do mean always, run 'tail -f /var/log/messages' in a terminal when debugging a kernel problem. The kernel gives you useful information - use it. An annoying NIC on laptop problem was solved this way - turns out we were trying to load the wrong module for this no name card and it needed 8139too.o instead. 2. SMP kernel crashes during boot with 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 were solved by passing 'noapic' to the kernel during boot. 'single' and 'init=/bin/sh' are very useful as well. That's it, thanks to everyone who showed up, it was great fun. See you again next time! -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? http://www.mulix.org/cv.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
