[HacktionLab] Barn Camp Dual boot - anyone up for it?

[Adelayde Skidmore]

 On 31/05/2011 22:19, penguin wrote:
> Hey
>
> I was looking through the rather excellent and eclectic mix of workshops
> proposed for this year's Barn Camp. I was wonder if there was a gap, and
> if there was, would some people be willing to fill it?
>
> Would anyone be up for doing a workshop on dual booting?
didn't we do one last year?

the only thing is that it can get quite technical this topic, for
example, if you've a machine with linux+windows on it where windows has
taken over, then the process of getting linux on the windows boot menu
can be quite complex - involving booting using a rescue cd under linux,
using dd, booting windows and editing its boot up configuration, etc...

i guess also that there's so many different combinations, such as:

* pc: windows, then linux installed
* pc: linux, then windows installed
* mac: os x + windows or os x + linux, or all three
* pc/mac: any and all of the above combined with free bsd, open bsd,
centos, beos, os/2

personally I wonder if it might not be better to concentrate on
virtualisation stuff, and introduce people to virtual box and similar
software?

actually, isn't that what we did last year?  it was me, Mick and Ben I
think, we did dual booting and virtualisation....
>
> I remember, not all that long ago, when I was a Windows junkie. People
> spoke to me about Linux, but it just didn't work. I loved the idea in
> principle (once it was explained to me), but getting a black screen
> asking me if I wanted to be tty1 was somewhat confusing - ah well, back
> to Windows. A friendly techie sorted me out, and I wonder if it might be
> a really useful workshop at Barn Camp to help fellow activists who are
> not immersed in the ways of the Debian (or whatever) through this
> sometimes tangled path to righteousness?
>
> I would host this workshop myself - but I really don't have the skills.
> Any takers to host a workshop?
>
> Cheers

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