[brlug-newbies] August 21st Linux SIG Workshop

[Dustin Puryear]

Excellent response and very impressive. Good job Ed.

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Monday, August 14, 2006, 10:03:15 AM, you wrote:

> Greetings all, 

> As many of you know, the Cajun Clickers Open House was held this
> past Saturday from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM. Joe Zachary and I left there
> Saturday afternoon with sore throats from having told the Linux
> story to so many people. According to Roger Carlyle, approximately
> 75 new members were signed up. The interest in our Linux Desktop SIG
> was very high! We will be doing an InstallFest in the Clickers
> Computer Lab for our next workshop. All current members that have
> experience with installing Linux, please come and help us out. I
> fully expect a standing room only crowd, which may mean that we may
> need to do the installs on a first come, first installed basis and
> possibly extend it to another session. The driving force behind this
> surge in interest is the recent drop of support for Windows 98/ME by
> Microsoft and the pending release of Windows Vista and its proposed
> increased hardware requirements. Come out and meet the new SIG
> members and help us get them up and going. 

> f you currently have any incarnation of Windows on your machine and
> you wish to dual boot Windows with Linux, then prior to the
> InstallFest be sure that the following has been accomplished:

> 1. Insure that you have at least 3 gig of free space on the
> existing Windows       drive or that there is available unallocated space on the dirve.
> 2. For Windows versions that support it, boot into "Safe Mode"
> 3. Double click on "My Computer"
> 4. Highlight and right click on each hard drive on the machine and select "Properties"
> 5. Click on "Disk Cleanup" and follow the prompts to remove all of the unneeded files
> 6. Click on "Tools"
> 7. Run "Scandisk" or "Error-checking", depending on the version of Windows
> 8. you are running, check "Automatically fix file system errors"
> and let it run. Run "Defragment Now". The prompts will vary
> depending on the version of Windows, but be sure you force the
> defragmentation even if Windows says that it doesn't need to be run.

> Depending on how recently you performed items 5 throught 8, it may
> take hours for them to successfully complete. If you have the time
> after having completed all of the above, repeat the above a second
> time but skipping the "Disk Cleanup" portion. 

> Also, anyone that would like to help Joe, Will and I by taking on
> a, or some, workshop is more than welcome do so. There are lots of
> opportunities here, including workshops of how to use the OpenOffice
> Suite, The Gimp, Amarok, Digikam, using and customizing FireFox,
> scanner software, CD/DVD burning software, web development software,
> desktop publishing, and many more, as well as how to use the normal
> KDE tools, like Control Center, the file managers, etc. 

> I hope to see everyone on Monday evening, 

> Ed Richards  

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