[olug] InstallFest tomorrow!

[Eric Penne]

You ask somebody with more experience than you to help.  If they don't
know the answer they ask someone with more experience than them until
somebody knows how to do it.  

Backing up a system and installing a fresh distro and putting the
backup  back on your PC is good for an installfest.  We can sure help
with that.  Now sometimes though, we like a little given back to the
community.  In this case I reccommend that you bring a pen and paper
and write down what we do.  For example, which directories and/or files
to backup and why.

Then I suggest that you go home and use your favorite linux word
processor (anything from "echo >> file.txt" to OpenOffice) and type up
the files/directories backed up and why and send it to the list or to
Brian for posting on Olug.org.  This will help others that are in the
same situation as you.

Bring that PC down tomorrow, we'll help ya.  You don't have to write
everything down but even these little things can help others get
involved with OpenSource software.

Eric


--- "William E. Kempf" <wekempf at cox.net> wrote:
> Question:
> 
> What all do you do at an InstallFest?
> 
> I ask because I recently had my Linux PC die on me (probably just the
> power supply, but it's time to upgrade any way).  I'll be getting a
> replacement PC soon from DIT (could possibly do that tonight), and
> then I'll be faced with trying to get my system back up to where it
> was, and it was difficult enough to do the first time.  I'll likely
> want to wipe the HD out, because it's a 40G drive formatted to 30G
> because of BIOS limitations in the old machine.  I have no idea how
> to go about backing things up so that this transition will be as
> painless as possible, and honestly, in a few cases I might be better
> off with an experienced person configuring things for me any way.
> 
> So... can you go so far as to deal with hardware issues, creating
> backups, etc?  If not, I'll just get by with doing everything
> myself... but it would be nice to have someone that knows what they
> are doing so it doesn't take as long.
> 
> 
> William E. Kempf
> wekempf at cox.net
> 
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