[H-GEN] Re: [H-ANNOUNCE] National Installfest.

[Anthony Towns]

On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 02:01:56AM +1000, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote:
> > Well, LinuxSA is having an installfest on Aug 15, and I believe SLUG is as
> > well.  It has been proposed that we make this a national event, and as a
> > result LUV is also going to be holding one.  
> 		a) Is there enough members willing to show up and help
> 		   with the installs.

Assuming we do this, I'm happy to be there. Debian 2.0 might even be
released by August. (*grumble*)

> 		b) How do we actually do it?

Presuming there's a room available we have ftp access to questnet. If
we ask really nicely, we might be able to get Jason Andrade or someone
to give us temporary NFS access as necessary too. We'd need to work out
in advance how this would need to work though.

We'd also need to setup the hubs and have spare netcable in advance
so people don't have to stress about bringing their own UTP/BNC
cable. Working out which IPs to use in advance would also be sensible
(presumably, "If you put your computer here, you're IP is .100. Here,
it's 101. Here, it's 102."  and son).

That only works for things that can do network installs, and that have a
netcard though. For those without net access, having a couple of RedHat
and Debian and Slackware and FreeBSD and NetBSD and HURD and whatever
else CDs handy would be good. [0]

Having some printouts of installation instructions and getting started
guides and stuff that people can take would be nice. (eg, five pages
on how to use distribution X/Unix in general) [1]

We'll need to work out in advance how to do some of the various
partitioning arrangements too. From coping with a computer that can
be formatted entirely, to one that has a spare partition, to one that
can only be resized dynamically (fips?), to one that needs UMSDOS (can
RH or Slackware do this out of the box? Debian can't standard, and I
presume the BSD's can't, and while I know HURD is aiming towards that,
I presume that without fat support, it can't either)

I'm happy to do bits of the general/Linux/Debian side of things, anyone
willing to step forward for anything else?

How many people turn up to these things? I expect there are a fair few
people from 1st/2nd year who'd get some value out of it. (although I
suspect it's just a touch too late for some :)

I don't suppose LSL or anyone is willing to sponsor the event, or
anything, especially if it's international?

Cheers,
aj

[0] "New to Unix? Step this way, and we'll inflict RedHat on your system.
    Think you know a bit, here. Take your pick. Be an extremist and install
    the HURD, or take the grungy alternative trip and do L^HBSD, or
    do the back to nature thing and install Slackware, or be all of the
    above, and install Debian" [so I'm a Debian Bigot. Sue me.]

[1] I'm thinking something like:
		Page 1: Humbug logo, introduction to humbug, unix.
		Page 2: Basic Unix usage
		Page 3: Basic Linux/BSD stuff. [half a page on ompiling 
		        a kernel, and half on general Linux history, say]
		Page 4,5: Random stuff about the distribution. Using RPM. How to
		          to customize bits of your system. What some neat
		          programs are, etc.

-- 
Anthony Towns <aj at humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
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