Brisbane Install Fest

[Chris Robinson]

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 From: Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com>
To: Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Friday, 30 December 2011 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Brisbane Install Fest
 
Yeah it sounds like a good idea but I don't know how useful it will
actually be. Unfortunately it was someone else's idea, I just happened
to implement the "download the whole Ubuntu repository and set up a
cron job to rsync every day" part of it.
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Unfortunately it seems to be non-trivial:
http://wiki.debian.org/DakHowTo

There also appears to be a package called Debarchiver:
http://joysofprogramming.com/install-debarchiver-ubuntu/

I think that mostly what they do is generate the package archive indexes, so that the archives can be used as a software source.

I shall have play with it tonight.

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Exactly. I have a spare stack of CDRs that I'd be willing to take
along for people to burn to and keep "just in case".
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I'll bring my external DVD burner along then.  Any CD/DVD burner that is more than a few years old is quite likely to be suspect.  We'll need to be careful.  I tried to install Ubuntu on my Nieces computer over Christmas and ran into a snag: The DVD burner on her 18 month old laptop was so faulty it couldn't burn _any_ disk successfully let along a bootable one.  Thank goodness for LiveUSB. (the bug in the 10.04 LTS bootdisk creator didn't help there.)  Laptops are the worst - the disk try has the laser and lens incorporated in it and people don't realise that with the try is out they have to be careful not to damage the very soft plastic of the lens.  Just dropping a disk on it would be enough to damage it, and add grime and dirt to the mix and it can be a disaster.

(Note to the unwary:  NEVER clean the laser lens with a cloth or cleaning agents unless you really know what you are doing.  It has to be treated with the same (or even more) care than you treat the CCD sensor in a digital camera when cleaning.  It's more easily damaged.  Never use raw isopropyl alcohol on it ...  and don't ask me why I know this not a good idea..)

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I haven't done anything to do with Windows outside using it at the
work office in over 5 years so I'm a bit out of date and practice. I
was hoping there'd be someone along who knew more than I but worst
case scenario I was going to scour
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot for pertinent
information.
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Well, I have plenty of experience with Windows, mostly from the repair and recovery POV so we should be OK.  What I haven't done a lot of is dual boot installs.  I did have one way-back-when I was trying out Ubuntu for the first time.  I can't remember resizing partitions though - I think I might have re-installed everything from scratch though it does seem unlikely.  Maybe I just let the partitioner run overnight and resize the partitions, and subsequently forgot about it as the years went by.  (...had a few sleeps since then...)

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Thanks for your input, I look forward to see you and others there in
just over a week.
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It should be good.  I made sure I had the day off from work, but they weren't too happy about it. ;-)

Chris
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