Re: [Haifux] InstaParty Thought - Buy/Receive the CD or Bust

2004-02-01 Thread Ori Idan
My few cents... I think we already discuessed the issue again and again so I don't know why we should continue. The issue of brining their own disks I think is something we should not encourage for several reasons. 1. A technical reason, what happens if they bring a bad disk? 2. The issue of t

Re: [Haifux] InstaParty Thought - Buy/Receive the CD or Bust

2004-02-01 Thread Orr Dunkelman
I wonder what is the difference between you suggest and what happened in the last insta party? after all, they could buy CDs from us, bring their own CDs (and they were asked to inform us on "weird" distro's). About what to install -- every time we organize InstaParty, we sit and decide what dist

Re: [Haifux] InstaParty Thought - Buy/Receive the CD or Bust

2004-02-01 Thread Adir Abraham
We've already discussed most of the issues, but let's have a reminder. On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all! > > I think that in future installation parties we should simply mandate that > people who wish to install their systems will either: > > 1. Buy a set of CDs from us. They alre

Re: [Haifux] InstaParty Thought - Buy/Receive the CD or Bust

2004-01-31 Thread Ez-Aton
time==money. Installing customizable setup means every desktop is to pass a whole series of adding/removing packages, according to the client's wishes. As much as I approve of such setup (hey, it's *the* best setup!), it means that every computer is to be on the "Rampa" about 3-4 hours, at least

[Haifux] InstaParty Thought - Buy/Receive the CD or Bust

2004-01-31 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! I think that in future installation parties we should simply mandate that people who wish to install their systems will either: 1. Buy a set of CDs from us. 2. Bring one from home, so we can install it for them. 3. Wouldn't mind downloading extra packages from the Internet using urpmi,