On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 02:56 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > Report: > ---------- > My presentation on Thursday was followed by an Install party, which I > hosted at my place. > The Install party was extended for two days, instead of the initial > planned "1600 to midnight" on Saturday. > Besides the install party, the objective was to install certain > development tools such kdevelop, anjuta ..... > > Saturday : at 1600 > Everyone was right on time :) without free space allocated for the install. :( > Every one (7 in all) who was willing to give FC5 a try got a Free FC5 > DVD from me, even the guy who was willing to install debian got my > LinuxTag's debian dvd for free. But it happens that during the > hardware detection, debian wasn't fruitful, so I handed him my Ubuntu > Breezy cd, which I got at LinuxWorldExpo in Frankfurt. > > I made myself a fool when I told that anaconda can resize their NTFS > partition. I always thought anaconda could do that. Is it because of > patents ? You cant do resizing without reading the partitions. So the same issues apply. > Anyway, thanks to ThomasCanniot on #fedora-fr, I got myself > a gparted livecd which resize partitions like a charm. > > Ill advise anyone who is planning an Install Party to acquire a > gparted livecd from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php > You'll thank me afterwards for the time you will save just for > resizing ntfs partitions. > > at about 1800 the real installation started, everyone fired their > installation dvd/cd into their players. > > Anaconda eased the pressure/stress of each participant. Well done, > Anaconda. My assistance was only solicited during the partitioning > section. If not, the installation worked like a breeze except for one > particular participant. His laptop (P3 1.2GHz) couldn't bear the > installation, and shuts down automatically due to overheat. Several > attempts did not prove to be successful. But nevertheless, he asked > whether the next day (i.e Sunday) I could install FC5 on his desktop. > > Another user was too stupid to choose a proper keyboard layout, hence > the root password was unknown after the installation. He started > again. There is a RFE to test the layout before confirming precisely to avoid this problem. > > FC5 installation in this desktop, proved to be buggy!! What was the bugs? Got any bug reports filed? Rahul -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
