Amir Tal wrote: >On Friday 16 August 2002 17:06, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >>Also, since unlike all the previous installation parties I have seen to >>date, where the crowed was pre-linux aware, if we do this in Renanim we >>may get some crowds that will pop by just to see what Linux is (or maybe >>even just to buy shoes/shirts/food/CDs for juggling), how about setting >>a machine up as a desktop computer example? Put KDE3 and gnome2 (too >>frightening to non-geeks for my taste), Mozilla kmal etc., OpenOffice, >>wine and a few Linux games. Show the crowds why it's worth giving it a >>shot, if nothing else? >> > >good idea. >the only problem is to get that machine (along with more hadware we don't >have, like monitors etc...) >i don't think that anyone here is willing to "sacrifice" his\her machine for >other people (specially windows users) to play around with. > I don't mind - I have an Evo laptop, currently running a Mandrake 9 beta, which I can easily sacrifice - I don't do anything important with it, and I don't mind installing it from scratch everytime. it has a DVD drive, so we can also demonstrate DVD playing, and is fully functional with Linux - connect a monitor, mouse and keyboard and it'd be just like a desktop (only much more impressive ;-)
>>Also, as this is the first installation party I am attending, how do you >>go about reducing the partitioned size of the existing disk? Anyone has >>a legal copy of PartitionMagic? Any open source alternatives? >> There are several open source/free alternatives to Partition Magic - partimage is one, and I know of one other which I can't remember. Several distros also can do repartition while installing - including resizing of FAT partition using GNU parted. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
