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We won't be able to make the event tomorrow; couldn't find a babysitter. We look forward to the next lug meeting.<BR>
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On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:42 -0400, William Bagwell wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Friday 16 May 2008, Marc Ferguson wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> About the actual installation, do I bring a computer or is it mostly</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> demonstrations?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Your choice, plenty to do and see without dragging a box around... Just don't </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">make the same mistake I made a few years ago. Similar to your situation, I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">had successfully installed and was already using Mandrake Linux. Still very </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">much a newb, decided to bring my box to an installfest for help with one of </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the more 'geeky' distros. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Someone there had a brand new set Slackware disks. So the choice was made, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">everything went well except one small glitch... Slackware ate my Mandrake </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">partition:-( Fortunately I had made fresh back ups that morning and only lost </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">a handfull of emails. But, instead of the super duper triple booter I was </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">expecting, I only got to pretend to be a real geek for a few hours before </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">reinstalling Mandrake.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Still run Mandriva, no longer even dual boot. (98SE will not install on this </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">MB and I don't need, want or *trust* XP) Have learned use a spare HD when </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">playing with fire:)</FONT>
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