<div><font face="garamond,serif">Do you know when the picnic will happen? I've been searching around for a time with no luck.<br></font></div><div><font face="garamond,serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond,serif">I flew to NC on Thursday. All my time on the computer up to now has been reinstalling Linux on my mother's old Mac Mini, because the update to Chakra apparently didn't create the modules required for it to work. My approach to hard Linux problems is usually to reinstall--unless I have time and it seems instructive, which was not the case this time. Linux has to share the computer with the Mac OS, which I hate with such a passion that I will only use it to download Linux Install CD's. My first choice was Chakra, but it refused to install because "When using a GPT parition table you need to have an unformatted partition with bios_grub flag."<br>
</font></div><div><font face="garamond,serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond,serif">Here's what happens when I fdisk -l:<br></font></div><div><font face="garamond,serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin-left:40px!important">
<font face="garamond,serif">D</font><font face="courier new,monospace">isk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes</font><div><font face="courier new,monospace">255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new,monospace">Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes</font></div><div><font face="courier new,monospace">Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes</font></div><div><font face="courier new,monospace">I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new,monospace">Disk identifier: 0x00006199</font></div><div><font face="courier new,monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new,monospace"> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new,monospace">/dev/sda1 1 409639 204819+ ee GPT</font></div><div><font face="courier new,monospace">/dev/sda2 409640 155598887 77594624 af HFS / HFS+</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new,monospace">/dev/sda3 * 155600896 304576511 74487808 83 Linux</font></div><div><font face="courier new,monospace">/dev/sda4 304576512 312580095 4001792 82 Linux swap / Solaris</font></div>
</div><div><br></div><font face="garamond,serif"><div>Should I have added a flag to the first sector? Is this all in preparation to Windows 8?<br></div></font><div>Anyway, I then tried to install Fedora 17 with no luck, then I tried SnowLinux which died near the end of installation. Finally I got Kubuntu installed and it still dual boots into the Mac OS.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Pat Barron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pat@lectroid.com" target="_blank">pat@lectroid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is just a quick "pre-announcement" that the WPLUG 11th Annual Open<br>
Source Picnic will be held on Sunday, August 19th. The location for<br>
this year's picnic will be North Park, at the Lakeshore pavillion.<br>
<br>
Further details, directions, etc., will be posted to the mailing lists<br>
(and to our wiki) soon. But I wanted to make sure that everyone at<br>
least had the date right now, so you can mark it on your calendar!<br>
<br>
Hope to see you there!<br>
<br>
--Pat.<br>
<br>
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