Meeting updates...

[Joseph Kubik]

Refer to earlier part of thread:
Just because we have some distro does not mean we have all of the
HOWTO's or patches that we may need.
An installfest with no internet is no fun at all.
-Joseph-

On 5/4/05, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Colin McGregor wrote:
> > "James Knott" <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:51 PM
> 
> >>>Spoke to the folks at Centennial College about doing an install fest at
> >>>Centennial and they are VERY interested. The idea being that we would
> >>>announce a place/time where you could bring your PC and get help with
> >
> > doing
> >
> >>>a Linux install. I was asked if we wanted to do this in say September
> >
> > since
> >
> >>>things are fairly quiet right now, and my answer was that I would like
> >
> > to do
> >
> >>>an install fest at a quiet time so we could see where problems crop up,
> >
> > this
> >
> >>>way come September we would be much better prepared to deal with issues
> >
> > with
> >
> >>>a large group. In other words I was suggesting two Centennial install
> >
> > fests.
> >
> >>>I was told they are reworking their network and so will not be able to
> >
> > this
> >
> >>>before about the end of May. Still, Centennial is on board for GTALUG
> >>>install fests starting in June.
> >>
> >>Are you planning on going to the internet for the install?  If not, how
> >>much network do you need?
> >
> >
> > There is a joke about how one of the fastest data transfer systems is a
> > person on a bicycle with a knapsack filled with tapes, the only catch being
> > that latency is a @#$%. My take on this would be to have:
> >
> > - A server with a CD-ROM burner and ISO images of several popular
> > distributions (i.e. Fedora, Debbie, Suse, Slackware, etc., etc.). This way
> > we can do a local network install and/or burn CD(s) on the spot as required.
> >
> > - Just a stack of CD-ROMs with copies of several different distributions
> > (and multiple copies of some of the most popular distributions).
> >
> > Regardless, we do NOT want several folks sucking down the full distributions
> > over the net. We do want the option of people being able to apply the latest
> > security patch(es) to their box(es) via the net... Likewise we want the
> > option of being able to look up information about how to deal with bizarre
> > hardware over the net.
> 
> So, why is the reworking of Centennial's network a concern???
> --
> The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
>
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml