[TriLUG] Distros at the Installfest

[Roy Vestal]

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, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:28:03PM -0500, jsevans at nc.rr.com 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.