[ale] Details on Installfest '08

[Marc Ferguson]

We won't be able to make the event tomorrow; couldn't find a babysitter.
We look forward to the next lug meeting.

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:42 -0400, William Bagwell wrote:

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

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