Re: [aclug-L] Need topic suggestions

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We actually had one of those meetings fairly recently, covering almost 
exactly what you are asking about :-)  As I recall, it was a pretty
well-attended meeting, so obviously your comments are on-target :-)

Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> How about hardware?  Determining what hardware will work in Linux (I have
> an XYZ brand card with an ABC chipset, will it work?) and how to configure
> Linux to work with various hardware (TV cards, CD-R's, 3d Video cards,
> etc, etc...)
> 
> Or perhaps disk drives & filesystems... How to add a disk drive to your
> system, how to run fdisk, how to format it... How to access other
> filesystems in Linux (FAT, VFAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, HFS, etc, etc..).  How
> to mount CD's, how to mount floppies, how to mount disk images, how to
> create disk images, what RAID is (perhaps how to do it).  How to get
> better performance out of your drives (Putting IDE's on different
> channels for example), etc, etc...
> 
> A couple brainstorms for you there.  Do with them what you will. :-)
> 
> 
> On 10 May 1999, John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So far the only topic suggestion I have for the meeting the 18th is
> > security.  Are there any others?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > John
> > 
> 
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