[TriLUG] Installfest hardware planning

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:

> Chris Hedemark had a great idea last InstallFest. Someone donates 
> blank CDs to
> TriLUG and TriLUG sells burned Linux distributions "a la carte", for 
> $1/CD
> (or something), inorder to increase TriLUG funds.

I was thinking of how to put it without coming off wrong.  :-)  Now 
that you broached the subject...

What I learned is that having a CD-R there is nice and all, but the 
best thing to do is have pre-made sets of the latest Red Hat (and a 
couple of Mandrakes... but Red Hat was far and away the most 
requested), put them in the super-slim jewel cases, and sell them for 
$10 for a set of 3 discs.  100% of the $10 went to TriLUG.

Sure, I could have put $20 in the box as a donation.  But my money went 
a lot farther by buying CD's, burning Red Hat ISO's, and donating 100% 
of the take to TriLUG.

> Has someone thought about setting up a server with the ost recent/used
> distros?
>
> RedHat 7.3/8.0/8.1?
> Mandrake 8.2/9.0/9.1?
> Debian Stable/Unstable
> Slackware 8.1
> Knoppix
> (.. insert here your favourite distro...)

I had an FTP server set up at the last installfest and again Red Hat 
was far and away the favorite.  Someone always seems to bring a sparc 
station so you might want to have on-hand one or two sparc distros 
(Aurora is the most up-to-date, Debian is also a good one).  Having the 
latest Mandrake tree online would also be good.

It might not be a bad idea to set up a kickstart floppy image to 
automate the Red Hat installs since they seem to be the most popular.

Chris Hedemark
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