Hi, A short account of what happened during the last meeting for those that didn't come (or left early): After some time settling (getting the food out, etc), the real party could begin. Martijn Hemels had brought his heavy-weight tower Pentium IV with two hard disks and so many operating systems. In order not to subject him to public blame, I won't mention the name of the first, but the second is a Gentoo GNU/Linux. He brought the machine to have Grub installed, because he couldn't have it manage his dual-boot configuration. After fiddling a bit around an automatic installation, I abandoned all pretense of using automation, and did things by hand. Which screwed up, because we repartioned and Linux doesn't update its idea of the partition table before a reboot (when some partitions on this drive are mounted). A reboot later, the (manual) installation worked and he was a happy dual-booter. I explained a bit the concepts around IPv6 by mouth and paper. After this, Rudi Sluijtman asked for a practical demonstration. I started looking for a tunnel broker that would take him, but the complication and delays of the procedure turned us off. I then decided to take a try in the 6to4 architecture, which I never did before. After some reading, I figured it out, and now Rudi has IPv6. During my "get Rudi IPv6" struggle, Joost van Baal set to install GNU/Hurd on an old machine he recently got (a 486-DX2, with an interesting motherboard that has both a VESA Local Bus (VLB) and PCI slots). The recommended way to do so is having another Unixy OS on the machine first (preferably GNU/Linux, and preferably Debian GNU/Linux). Although I succeeded in installing GNU/Hurd "directly" without any other OS touching the hard drive (basically, from a Debian rescue disk), just for the sport of it, the recommended way still makes things easier, so Joost started by installing Debian GNU/Linux. Basically, he couldn't get either the network card, nor the CD-ROM drive (an old model of the kind that connects to the sound card, not IDE/ATAPI) recognised, so no install. Interestingly enough, he came with the machine, but without keyboard or monitor for it. I couldn't give him one of my keyboard, as the machine has a big connector, and all my keyboards have small connectors. He ultimately had to go home and back to bring the stuff. He left before my minute of glory when I finally got Rudi working IPv6. Appendix: I set to install Debian GNU/Linux on Joost's machine (which he left to be picked up later) this morning. Network works like a charm. Wonder how Joost did to get any trouble >;-) More seriously, I did two changes: - I'm using the bf24 flavour of the install boot floppies - The network card was on a non-master PCI slot, but apparently needs one, like suggested by the ERROR (not warning) message the BIOS was spewing out at boot: ERROR: PCI Slot 4 doesn't support bus master. I moved it to slot 1.
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