[ale] NW meeting last night

[audilover at atlantabroadband.com]

Quoting Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>:

> I want to thank Ray Knight for a fantastic presentation last night.  It 
> was pretty slick watching the install on the Indy and PPC boxes. 
> Although Ray ran into a couple of unexpected issues, like a true geek, 
> he was able to resolve them and by the end of the night, both boxes were 
> installed.
> 
> We had a little over 20 folks in attendance.
> 
> Thanks again Ray, Dow and Matthew for hauling in the hardware for the 
> presentation, that's always a hassle.
> 
> I left somewhere around 12:30ish, others were still milling around.
> 
> -- 

It didn't help that we couldn't get in the room before 8 PM to setup the
hardware.  I'd like to thank everyone for their patience while I stumbled
through resolving the issue of how to get the installer on the PPC box.  
Overall, I think things would have been smoother if I had installed on my own
systems (I was familiar with the exact hardware, so the install would have been
quicker).  But then installing on unfamiliar hardware pointed out some of the
issues you can expect to have when doing an install on these hardware types.

I didn't have time to cover the update and upgrade processes for Debian.

Ray