[olug] Installfest Demo System / Serial ATA Info

[Brandon Lederer]

Dont know If I would have the _time_ to do a full 3 stage gentoo setup at a
6 hr InstallFest.  Would LOVE to.  Serial ATA Is crazy.  Im pulling my OS
drive off of SATA (with the Serial ATA to Parallel ATA converter) for
performance reasons.  SATA converters are NOT what to use if you are looking
for performance, get a SATA drive.  The current driver (from 2.4.21) when
using SATA to Parallel ATA spews out bogus errors.  Edited it and commented
out the cable checking, and now no errors, just slow performance.  Ill just
switch the drive off of SATA and not care anymore.  That makes installing
Gentoo 10Fold easier anyhow, since Gentoo Live CD did not detect the SATA
Device.

BTW are there Monitors available at the InstallFest?

-----Original Message-----
From: OBrien, Timothy (Omaha Linux Users Group - OLUG)
[mailto:IrishMASMS at olug.org]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 8:42 AM
To: olug at olug.org
Cc: brandonl at hms4emc.com
Subject: Re: [olug] Installfest Demo System



<quote who="Brandon Lederer">
> I have a system that I would be interested in Demoing at the
> installfest.  I Don't know if it will be ready for the installfest, I
> just finished building it last night, and at the moment am not even back
> in Linux.  Good Ol' Kernel Panic b/c it can't find root.  I'll get that
> fixed.  Then, I was thinking of upgrading to Gentoo.  If anyone wants to
> help, let me know.
[snipped]
>
> I would need a monitor for the installfest, as my 22" NEC monitor
> doesn't travel.
>
> Brandon

Brandon - Please, feel free to bring what looks like a kick ass system
along to the fest. Troubleshooting panics & installing Gentoo is what the
fest is all about!

-- 
Timothy "Irish" O'Brien
Publicity & Social activities chairperson
Omaha Linux User's Group (OLUG)
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