Hi all, I started to write, mainly for myself, some notes about the instaparty we had on Thursday. Basically, I think the whole notion should be very different from today, and that the usuall installers (well, at least RH) are too general to be close-to-optimal for our (tau's) audience (and probably also most of the potential Israeli audience).
I will use these notes mostly to prepare for our next instaparty, but I think many of the issues are also relevant to other instaparties. You can find the (on-going-version of the) notes here: <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/instaparty-notes> I will be happy to get comments. Didi On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:21:03PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > Just an idea how to somewhat reduce the number of CDs required for an > installation party: > > Essential requirement: the installed PC should have a network card. > Having a network card might be more common then it used to be with the > spreading of fast Internet connectivity and having some boards with on > board Ethernet interfaces. > > I guess you already figured out the rest: > > 1. In addition to preparing a suitable partition the owners of the PC > to be installed will create the boot floppy set from a site that > will be pointed out to them. They will run these floppies according > to instructions that will be given to them. Besides get them to be > able to run part of the installation by themselves this can reveal > in advance hardware that is likely to be problematic. > 2. The organizers of the installation party will deploy a LAN. > Hopefully this reduces mainly to a HUB and some long network cables. > 3. Installation will be through the LAN. > > Beside the question of whether it is not better to produce more CDs then > to go through this procedure I wonder if this procedure will not make > the installation longer. > > Yet I do believe that currently it will be best if every new installee > will be given a CD set. > > -- > > Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
