[Klug-general] Next Meeting: Saturday 7th June @ Canterbury LIbrary

[Kevin Groves]

Sounds good so far. I will be bringing along my buffalo ethernet 
converter (4 port hub with wifi repeater) so we can setup a wifi relay 
should there be a spot within reach other than the locked down library 
one. Hopefully they wont lock updates down but you can't be sure.

See you all next Saturday.

Kev




On 30/05/14 22:21, James Morris wrote:
> Re my "Install Arch over existing Linux without installation media"
> talk, picked up one of those tiny tp-link wireless usb adaptors this
> morning, and decided a test run would be a good idea.
>
> first thing that needed doing was entering the date and time into
> the laptop bios. secondly, fsck informed me it was checking the
> filesystem as it hadn't been mounted for 842 days. discovered debian
> lenny was the installed system.
>
> so had to cheat a little here. with such an out of date system i
> decided to just reinstall the latest debian stable over it, with a cd
> of course, just a minimal system. then i had to git clone and compile a
> kernel model for the wireless usb dongle from github. went surprisingly
> smoothly.
>
> then on commencing with the arch chroot (following instructions
> not memory) discover that the arch base system won't as advertised be
> installed into a 500mb system - the combined size of the downloaded
> packages and their extracted contents exceeds 500mb (though I'm not
> sure by how much). better to discover that now than later.
>
> hopefully, if i give this a few practice runs i'll have something to
> present and something more than the basic arch installation (ie
> console shell) at the end of it.
>
> cheers,
> james.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 21 May 2014 23:42:31 +0100
> James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes laptop lacks built in WiFi Lan connection. Just looked online
>> adaptors can be had quite cheaply, will look at picking one up in the
>> morning. Thanks.
>>
>> James.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:16:10 +0100
>> Kevin Groves <kgroves at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think there will be wired. Do you mean the machine does not
>>> have wifi built in? We could possibly mash something up. Will see
>>> what bits I have.
>>>
>>> Kev
>>>
>>> On 20/05/14 23:17, jwmartnet . wrote:
>>>> Yes will be able to demo it. Is there access to wired internet?
>>>> Otherwise has anyone got a wifi dongle I can borrow?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> James.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 20 May 2014 21:15, Kevin Groves <kgroves at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Sounds good. Will you demo it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Kev,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 20/05/14 20:46, jwmartnet . wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> How about how to replace an existing Linux installation with arch
>>>>> Linux without an install disc? But need net access and I have an
>>>>> age old laptop (w/o WiFi) I'd like to try it on. Recently did it
>>>>> to my parents PC and was very impressed with arch wiki.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 20 May 2014 19:30, "Kevin Groves" <kgroves at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> So any more ideas for things people want to talk about?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kev,
>
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