Gentoo will not be there. Dunno if we have enough time at the installfest for that! ;)
Oohh! Forgot slackware...scribble, scribble... On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 14:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:28:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This will be my first installfest, and I was wandering what distros will be > > available. I am hoping to install Debian, and I am sure that the other mainstream > > distros will be available also, but what about the lesser well known ones like > > Gentoo, Yellowdog, Sorcerer, Damn Small, and others. > > Debian, Knoppix, Red Hat, Mandrake for sure. Nearly positive SUSE and > Gentoo as well. Not so sure about Arch, Lunar, Yellowdog, Corel, > Libranet, ... > > > Secondly, I am hoping to bring in my nearly dead 166mhz Dell Laptop in for > > installation. Installation will have be primarily through floppy. I mean > > primarily because the CDROM runs through a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for a > > small distro that I would need to bring with me, if it will not be provided? I do > > not need a GUI interface on this machine. Links, Bitchx, and mutt are good enough > > for me. > > There are some very small distros that fit on one or two 3.5" floppy > diskettes (based on either Slackware, Debian, ...). Some run entirely > from them, others can be used to bootstrap a full install. Take a look > on freshmeat.net. > > HTH. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
