[sf-lug] Meeting report for Sunday June 7, 2015

[Bobbie Sellers]

Hi LUGers,

     I was a bit slow in getting to the meeting and John S
was there with 3 tables pulled together for the meeting.
Later a fourth table would be added.
   I started up my computer and it gave me a glitch so I
had to go and create a "burning group"!  I mis-spelled
burning and to remove it I had to delete my account  in
order delete the "burninng" group,
Then I had to recreate my own account with all the stuff
re-enabled and then recreate the burning group which
      became one of my groups.

      John S forgot his network card for the Raspberry Pi which
he is trying to turn into a music player.  He demoed this
playing some music thru his flat screen TV/monitor.   He quit
working on it fairly early,  Stayed until nearly 1300.

     Nathan having a problem with Gnome animations.
He was helped by Ken and he was using KDE the last
I saw.

     Andrew using Linux with Mac in a lab and came along
with Nathan.

     Maestro  offering advice and I may take it to replace ktorrent with
qbittorrent.  He was given a copy of Finnix 1.1.1 which goes to a
terminal interface which reminded me of the Amiga with Unix.
He also got the original of the late Makulu distribution which was
on the Linux Pro disk last moonth

     Ken Schaefer and wife were there and Ken was helping with
Nathan's problem.

     Michael who wants a new distro but not sure which cpu he
has at home.  He is supposed to get in touch with me with that
information and so I can get him at least one distribution to
install.   Michael used to come to meetings a lot more often
and it was good to see him again though I had to admit I had
forgotten his name.

     Mark is trying to install Knoppix on his tower and
asked my advice which I was willing to give but which
he was unwilling to accept as it was intended.  We left
him at  the Cafe wtih a 3+ more hours of time to endure
while Knoppix worked on the installation on his tower
computer which had had Windows Vista which he wanted
  completely removed.

     And a brief word.  He refused to let me go ahead and
create partitions for him because like so many users he failed
to understand the utility of partitions.  I was lucky enought to
start understanding partitions with the Amiga and SCSI
drives.  Linux has made it clearer to me.

     So if anyone wants a Knoppix installation you need a
  adequately  sized Swap partition, a 12+ GiB partition
  and I think a /home  partition is what you really need.
  I go a bit further with /boot   or on a UEFI machine a
  /boot/efi, / (root), /usr, /opt, /usr and   /var sized according
  to the directions found on Usenet by a  eccentric user
  of my acquaintance who is used to much smaller disks
  defined and formatted by cli tools.  All these are labeled
  as to distribution and function.
     Before i go any further I must point out that for a Knoppix
install that 12+ GiB partition must be formatted with the
Reiser file system.
      Now because of his refusal to let me create partitions the
  Swap partion was too small, making it larger involved moving
  the Reiser partition over.   That takes hours.

    Jim Stockford also attended briefly as he was tasked with home
care for the parents of the GF.  He came in briefly promising to
return after a chore only he could do.  Jim returned shortly after
1 PM and I finished packing up.  Jim gave me and my equipment
a ride home.

   So this was an interesting meeting with the return of Michael.
Andrew and Nathan are new to the UG and we can hope they
will return.  I hope Mark completes the Knoppix install without
further problems

       Next meeting will be on Monday June 22, 2015 from 6-8 P.M.
  at the Cafe Enchante.   Hope to see you there.

       Bobbie Sellers

     P.S.  Please feel free to correct any mistakes I may have
made in writing this or offer clarification of your activities
if I have made erreors in this report.

     bliss