[wailug] April Meeting

[Phil Workman]

On 31 Mar 2003 at 23:13, Rose McGillicuddy wrote:
> At the moment I am rostered to work both those evenings so will see if I 
> can change.  I have messed up with Software Package Manager.  Was trying 
> to configure it (after reading a tutorial on line) and added a download 
> site for updates.  It said to wait, so I waited about twenty minutes, 
> and nothing seemed to be happening and I needed to get to bed.  It was 
> late.  Tried to close the darned thing by clicking on the 'x', but it 
> didn't respond, so I closed internet connection and closed everything 
> and logged out.  Next time I looked at the Package Manager it has 
> unreadable symbols instead of words!!  Gimp has always done the same. 
>  Also I have a spare 2Gb hard drive and thought I'd like to try 
> installing Mandrake 9 to it since I have the new CDROM!  The only thing 
> stopping me is the fact I messed up Grub when I installed RedHat a while 
	Make sure that you make or have a bootable system disc

bring your box and monitor -keyboard & mouse with you if you can make it 
for tuesday.
2Gb will be on the small size to install everything.

Regards
Phil Workman

phil at pwork.contact.net.nz

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