Standardizing the install-fest (WAS Re: Meeting Notes for 20030116)

Charles M Mills boson at u.washington.edu
Fri Jan 17 22:21:04 PST 2003


Debian and Gentoo are network installable, but aren't all major distro's 
network installable in some fashion?
Charlie

On Friday 17 January 2003 03:40 pm, Mark L. Chang wrote:
> What would be nice would be to have a box or two that would be an NFS
> server LOCAL to the lan. That way we wouldn't be crushing the c&c
> servers.
>
> So, for network-installable distros (which ones are they?), we don't
> need that much media. Just boot cds and boot floppies. Blammo. A couple
> copies of the distro media would be good for those with weirdo network
> cards :).
>
> I will offer up my laptop (rh8) to serve isos via nfs. One should be
> fine, more better.
>
> We can even hit up RH for media, tshirts, and the like for an install
> fest.
>
> Mark



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