[sf-lug] Report on the SF-LUG meeting at Cafe Enchante of Monday, October 17, 2016
maestro
maestro415 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 20:21:18 PDT 2016
>>Maestro has a notebook with Linux Mint installed which has been
>>behaving badly when he tries to save pages from the net. Before we were
>>done talking at the end of we decided it might be a unwonted side effect
>>of Firejail with which M. has been experimenting.
ahhh...HUH? don't know where you got THAT from or how???
wow. it would be lost in translation but was never said. moving on...
>>Calamares installer and it has some shortcomings
>>so that we were unable to figure out how to create
>>an Extended partition for his Manjaro install.
ahhh...no. YOU were unable to figure it out. i was fine
continuing with calamares you were uncomfortable with
it so i asked if you'd be more comfortable using gparted.
i also wanted to see how you do your partitioning since you
talk about doing it all the time and others may come to meetings
to get help and/or learn how to partition different things...
>>We eventually got it ready to install but the Mint partitions seem to
>>have merged into one as a result of Firejail. At least that is the way
>>it looked to GPartEd
wow. ahhh...no. just going to leave that @ no.
>>Mainly I coached him on the use of GPartEd to
>>create partitions for the eventual install.
ahhh...no. i know how to use gparted and you were very flustered
you couldn't get the partitions the way i was saying them with a very
'vanilla' manager.
>>Sometimes I took over the use of the tool
because i let you and wanted to see you DO it.
>>to demonstrate the use of the GUI to re-size partitions.
i was using typeface entry you wanted to slide the pretty pictures around
and got flustered at me typing the actually calculated numbers.
>>These GUI tools are easy for me to use since I have been
>>using GUI tools for over 25 years
ahhh...hmmm...can't go to the video as there isn't one.
but no.
>>but these tools are not really
>>intuitive as Maestro and myself discussed for a few minutes.
with some aspects yes. especially for such a 'vanilla' program which
MANY new users are encouraged to use, won't read the documentation
first, or UNMOUNT the drives they want/need to partition.
i DID become tired and like a jackass initially suggested using my distro
installed gparted which is...well...just dumb being that it would open from
a mounted active partition. i quickly realized my dumbass thought and
digressed.
as per the rest of the 'report'...ahhh...wow.
but hey! @ least you and i were THERE.
message ends.
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Bobbie Sellers <
bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Hi LUGers,
>
> 5:30PM setting up at the Cafe Enchante -no problems
> I was able to take over the large table near the front of the
> Cafe.
> 5:40 PM Maestro arrived. He was setting up his notebook
> a few minutes later and wanted my assistance with a partitioning
> problem.
> 1800+ Tom(?) the Postman showed up and asked some
> general questions. Tom wants to move out of delivery services
> and into Information Technology and was asking about the
> value of coding Boot Camps as work preparation.
>
> 1840 Shari Mann showed up and I spent about 40 minutes talking
> to her. I was attempting to explain how to get to tools in PCLinux0S
> which with Jim's help I installed on her renovated tower about 2 months
> back. She left about 7:20 PM as her pet needed a break and care.
> To talk to her I needed to take a break from helping Maestro
> which was a rather sleazy thing for me to do perhaps but which
> to me seemed to be absolutely required by Shari's needs and her
> limited time.
>
> Maestro has a notebook with Linux Mint installed which has been
> behaving badly when he tries to save pages from the net. Before we were
> done talking at the end of we decided it might be a unwonted side effect
> of Firejail with which M. has been experimenting.
>
> Meantime he wanted to split his nominal 80 Gigabyte hard
> drivers and install Manjaro in the free space, Manjaro uses Calamares
> installer and it has some shortcomings so that we were unable to figure
> out how to create an Extended partition for his Manjaro install.
>
> We eventually got it ready to install but the Mint partitions seem to
> have merged into one as a result of Firejail. At least that is the way
> it looked to GPartEd. Mainly I coached him on the use of GPartEd to
> create partitions for the eventual install. Sometimes I took over the use
> of the tool to demonstrate the use of the GUI to re-size partitions.
> These GUI tools are easy for me to use since I have been
> using GUI tools for over 25 years but these tools are not really
> intuitive as Maestro and myself discussed for a few minutes.
>
> About 7:45 I started to pack up but was willing to stick by
> Maestro until he had enough of configuration.
> About 8 PM or so we were out of the Cafe and I went home
> via the #38 to Hyde Street.
>
> ==================================
>
> Our discussion of the partitioning tools was interesting but
> I had now answer for how I would get drakdisk which is a part
> of the drakxtools used in Mandriva/Mandrake forks. I started
> thinking about this and will have by the next meeting a
> partial solution and perhaps an easier to use tool than
> GPartEd. I say perhaps because I am no judge of other
> people's capabilities in this regard.
>
> ==================================
>
> The next meeting at Cafe Enchante will be on
> Sunday November 6, 2016. Expect my usual announcement
> of the next meeting on October 31.
> Don't forget to fall back an hour on your time-keeping
> devices on the 5th of November.
>
> Have a Happy Halloween!
>
> Bobbie Sellers
>
>
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