[PLUG] Subject matter for a talk?

[Vedanta Teacher]

We worked on this for hours yesterday and never got OpenBSD to seat
on the hard drive. We tried various releases including 6.0 but nothing
worked.
Wes was kind enough to burn and try FreeBSD but when we rebooted it
said there was no OS on the hard drive. We came to the conclusion that
the hardware was too new; its a Dell Insperon 3000 series, model 3558,
and there is no support yet.
  I have a live CD coming and it should be here in several weeks so I'll try
that next. If that doesn't work I have a 6+ year old Lenovo lap top that I
need to dissemble and repair to try as well.  If I have time tonight I'll
look
at the tech postings @ OpenBSD and see if others have had similar issues.

Thank You,
Paul W.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Michael Dexter <dexter at ambidexter.com>
wrote:

>
> Top posting...
>
> Indeed the 17th and indeed this would be a good topic. I am happy to
> show what I have been doing to build FreeBSD virtual machines for bhyve
> given that early on, that was the only way to get guests to work.
>
> Would you like to come up with a more detailed description or shall I?
>
> About subject matter... there is a flood of it. I have just been short
> on time coordinating people. However, on-list proposals like this are
> very appreciated.
>
> Michael Dexter
> PLUG Volunteer
>
> On 5/12/16 7:19 AM, Vedanta Teacher wrote:
> > Everyone,
> >
> >    Was the next talk Tuesday the 17th @ Free Geek?
> >
> >     I can see that Michael D. does many of the talks and its difficult
> > to find subject matter. What about a round table about non-traditional
> > methods of installing Linux & BSD?
> >
> >    If you've seen my posts on installing OpenBSD it might be interesting.
> > The options for installing OpenBSD are endless; openSuse, I think
> > offers Leap & Tumble weed but no live CD, PC-BSD is happy
> > to sell you a Live CD. The question for anyone entering Open Source
> > is where to begin?
> >
> >     By the way; as a side discussion I've found Dell to be very good
> about
> > posting support pages on modifying its BIOS/UEFI and the BIOS
> > is very easy to modify for installation. Other manufactures are not
> > so helpful...
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Paul W.
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