[nzlug] HBCLUG Installfest and an unexpected gotcha...

[Simon Bridge]

Installfest:
I am going to claim three people at the end of the day - so it's not bad
for a first fest in a widows stronghold. Would appreciate advise on
timing and promoting these things from the veterans out there.

One person turned up just to chat.... but left wih a Gutsy install CD
(you know who you are - tell me how it went).

One person rang to say they couldn't make it - but I'm claiming that,
TV-psychic-wise, as he asked if I'd help with an install later.

One person did an install right there. And it was a doozy!

Initially, the monitor (an older Philips) kept insisting that the
display mode was wrong no matter what I set it to. <sigh> So, I used my
own ... and the install worked... sort of.

This was to be a dual-boot with XP. I specified that the windows fat32
partition was to be mounted at /windows (an option in the partitioner).

The migration tool seemed easy enough, only it wanted me to specify a
user for the migrated stuff... fine, only the user creation is in the
next step.

Never mind - it accepted the input user details. At the next step, I
specified the same user as before.

Hit finish... ten minutes later (is it me or is this the fastest install
to date?) reboot... OK. Widows drive not at /windows. OK, I know how
that goes... create mountpoint, create fstab entry, no worries.

Windows data - not there!

The requirement to create/specify a user to migrate the data to threw
me. How are we expected to use this thing?

I've tried googling about this, but all I get are reviews talking about
how it's great without giving any examples of it's actual use!