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 personally familiar with doing a net install from a floppy with RH and consistently use the Debian net install cd and it works perfectly. This could be a way to slim down the number of burned (wasted) cd's. Any thoughts? My 2 cents, Jeff On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There will be an installfest on Saturday March 1st. > The location and time will probably be the same as the last one. I'll let you > know when I get the room. > > We are going to need to get some CDs burned. I think some sets of Red Hat > and Debian netinstalls. We still have about 15 mandrake 9.0 download edition. > There are also a few full SCO sets that they sent, but if that is anything like > caldera openlinux then I wouldn't suggest it. Maybe a few knoppix CDs would be > nice to give the people who are interested, but not sure if they want a full > install. > > As far as publicity is concerned, past fliers have been very attractive but not > at very informative about what we are doing. They should mention that people > should bring their computer. At the last one, a few people were interested but > didn't know to bring their computers. It would also be good to have a little > sentence or two explaining what we are installing is and why they might want it. > We also need to get people to flier the Monday before the event if it doesn't > get done by the ACM during the previous week. > > -- > Have a nice day, > Jeff Strunk > sigfree.utacm.org > siglinux.utacm.org > -- > "Exists(x)[linguist(x) && All(y)[~respect(y,x) -> fool(y)]]" > (infinitera) > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux -- ------------------------------- Jeffrey Forman E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
