[Liverpool] Possible topic for future talk

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 24/10/12 13:19, David Hughes wrote:
> On 24 October 2012 12:16, Sebastian Arcus<shop at open-t.co.uk>  wrote:
>> I know I'm going to regret this when I'll realise later on what I've done,
>> but here it goes :-)
>>
>> I'm in the process (read: struggling, cursing and pulling hair out) of
>> installing Linux on a new machine which only supports UEFI (the replacement
>> for BIOS) and GPT (the replacement for MBR). Now maybe others using more
>> sleek distro's than me ;-) will have a bit less of a hassle - but it
>> occurred to me that a talk on some of the workings of UEFI, GPT and how it
>> might affect installing Linux could be an interesting topic for those who
>> haven't dealt with this hurdle yet. Any takers?
>>
>> Now quick, press the send button before I realise what I'm getting myself
>> into and change my mind :-)
>
> Just out of interest, which distro are you using?

I'm actually using Slackware. Slackware still uses Lilo unfortunately, 
so there is a bit of faffing about with getting elilo working instead. 
Not sure why they haven't moved fully to elilo yet by default.