On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 12:52, DrWho? wrote:
This will mean a bit more effort on the part of the volunteers with partition resizing etc.. but in saying that sing out and they will come.
Have a look at http://www.wlug.org.nz/InstallFest for the details of what we are suggesting people do. Basically it boils down to * Have at least 5GB unpartitioned space on your disk * OR be prepared to wipe the disk clean * OR buy a new harddisk as others have pointed out resizing is particularly risky and not something that I think we want to be fiddling around with. Provided there is enough space on the disk we will quite happily ensure that the machine dual boots properly.
There will no doubt be more software that some would need to play games with, but I have not gone down that path, but finding someone who could help with this would be of good value.
I think be installing a recent distribution such as Fedora Core and teaching people how to use the package management tools that are available we will achieve most of this. Regards -- Matt Brown Email: matt(a)mattb.net.nz GSM : 021 611 544