Re: [Siglinux] Installfest, March 1st

2003-02-11 Thread jeffstrunk
There are 2 reasons not to do this: 1) We are there to configure the install for their particular hardware. 2) We don't have any spare boxes to put hard drives into. On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:03:49PM -0600, Big Mike Forsberg wrote: > Now this is crazy but, does anyone see the prob with > just ins

Re: [Siglinux] Installfest, March 1st

2003-02-11 Thread jeffstrunk
The new information has been on the rarely updated website for a while. your apt source should now be ftp://joe2.ma.utexas.edu/debian-utm/ debian-pool main contrib non-US. There is also unstable-pool with only main. They no longer have any installation stuff, and I think it is just the math departm

Re: [Siglinux] Installfest, March 1st

2003-02-11 Thread jeffstrunk
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:26:38PM -0600, Doc wrote: > > > There are also a few full SCO sets that they sent, but if that is anything like > > Must have missed the original. SCO sets? As in UnixWare? Nothing to > do with Linux. But I'd really like a copy. > I have a laptop already configur

Re: [Siglinux] Installfest, March 1st

2003-02-11 Thread Doc
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Big Mike Forsberg wrote: > Now this is crazy but, does anyone see the prob with > just installing the selected OS on a "harddisk" with out the whole box? > Or, does the "installation craft" also reside in the configuring of > an individuals machine for their given hardware? >

Re: [Siglinux] Installfest, March 1st

2003-02-11 Thread Robert Giles
Speaking of net-install mirrors, anyone know what happened to the Debian mirror on joe2.ma? (ftp.the.net apparently only mirrors RH & Mandrake) .. Robert Giles TEXAS EX [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Siglinux] Installfest, March 1st

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Forman
With relation to burning cd's, would it be prudent/possible/intelligent to enlighten the new users on doing net installs? A good portion of the new users who bring their machines live on campus, meaning they have a nice big fat pipe to the ftp mirror of distro's at marmot.ots.utexas.edu. I'm per

Re: [Siglinux] Installfest, March 1st

2003-02-11 Thread Big Mike Forsberg
Now this is crazy but, does anyone see the prob with just installing the selected OS on a "harddisk" with out the whole box? Or, does the "installation craft" also reside in the configuring of an individuals machine for their given hardware? Big Mike On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:45:46PM -0600, [EMA