On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Brian Dolan-Goecke wrote: > This months PenguinsUnbound.net meeting > will be Saturday November 8th, 2008 ** Tomorrow ** at TIES, > 1667 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul, MN 55108 > from 9:00am to 5pm The installfest was really great for me. Many people were there struggling with their various tricky problems. I was one of them. There were a few quite helpful people around -- Brian was especially good. In my case I need to install a software RAID (RAID1 -- drives mirror each other) and it was good to have some help with that. We had to use the Ubuntu 8.10 "alternate" installation CD. It took a few tries but we did it. Then the big problem -- my video card wasn't working! Huge hassle and I left without working X. But when I got home I did some googling and I figured out the problem. Now it's working great. (Unfortunately I had to install a non-free ATI Radeon driver, oh well.) I was there for more than 5 hours fighting with this machine. Where else can you find people who will hang out and help you for five hours?! It was a huge favor to me and I really appreciate it. I also ate pizza, donuts, soda and coffee (healthy stuff!) and didn't pay for any of it, which seems wrong, but I tried to pay and they wouldn't take my money. Maybe I can pay next time or send a check to someone. Mike