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Re: Installation Party Summary
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > As suggested above, another approach is for the organizers to provide for
> > a CD-ROM drive connected to the Parallel Port.
>
> btw, is that supported by Linux installations at all?
Even if not, copy the relevant files to the user's hard disk's DOS
partition and then install from there. After installation is complete,
the DOS partition can be cleaned.
> > Have the users bring the display and video card user's manuals (I
> > remember having had pored for a while over my display's user's manual
> > while fine tuning my X configuration). In other words, add to the form
> > also a checklist of what hardware manuals to bring with thePC.
>
> that will drive people away (understandable). people brought me computers
> they "bought only 4 days ago" and they didn't even know what graphic
> accelerator they had... the guy had an ATI, which appears at the bottom
> corner of his win95 taskbar, but even when I told him he didn't know what
> that means... total newbies don't know what an IRQ is, man!
Then ask them to at least bring any documentation they got with their
computers and I don't mean just the chashbonit-mas which lists the
peripherals.
BTW: what is ATI? (Personal replies only! Not to the list. Don't
propagate my shame around, and don't waste other people's time on this
non-Linux question.)
--- Omer
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