We'd prefer to only send out fairly large quantities, of say 100, but we'd consider lots of 25 as well. If you're interested then let me know.
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Perhaps this may be of some interest for the `Install fest Day' provided someone can install them,
Pity they're on DVD, as the box I have reserved for *BSD and Debian only has an old CD-Rom drive :(
I see no reason why someone shouldn't install a *BSD at the install fests, but the focus should really be *GNU*/Linux. As a related point, I suspect if people turn up, some may not bring their computers (they *are* a pain to lug around), so maybe we could have some install discs on offer?
Plenty of us could put the first CD of (insert distro's name here) on a CD-R, and there's plenty of Debians CD's bandying about. Perhaps we could do a 3 disc pack for a small fee- like 1 Debian, 1 Redhat, 1 Slackware, just so that we present an offer of several distros so people can try them out. (I'm all for choice rather than forcing 1 distro on a newbie) I know Martyn had some on offer for cheap a while back (in rather spiffy cases, might I add).
Ricardo
Hi Ricardo
I have a veritable collection of RedHat distros from 5.2 up to the current 7.2. Whilst not recommending the 5.2 or 6.x series for new installations, they do fit on to one standard CD. The 7.x series span two discs, and would take a fair bit of foward planning to get some ready for distribution. I have a master image of the RedHat 7.2 distro on this machine complete with a number of updated packages and a 2.4.16 kernel - I can either burn a small number of my bastadised RH7.2, or replace anaconda with the original for a "standard" RH7.2 distro. Having sorted out the RH scripts, I can respin a new distro an the fly, so if anyone has a few extras/updates to add (James ??) just let me know.
Regards, Paul.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 12:56, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Plenty of us could put the first CD of (insert distro's name here) on a CD-R, and there's plenty of Debians CD's bandying about. Perhaps we could do a 3 disc pack for a small fee- like 1 Debian, 1 Redhat, 1 Slackware, just so that we present an offer of several distros so people can try them out. (I'm all for choice rather than forcing 1 distro on a newbie)
Ricardo Campos corez23@linuxmail.org wrote:
Plenty of us could put the first CD of (insert distro's name here) on a CD-R, and there's plenty of Debians CD's bandying about. Perhaps we could do a 3 disc pack for a small fee- like 1 Debian, 1 Redhat, 1 Slackware, just so that we present an offer of several distros so people can try them out. (I'm all for choice rather than forcing 1 distro on a newbie)
Does anyone know if debian's netinst is usable over dialup and if other distributions have a similar way to install from a minimal CD image? Is Zipslack any good for a starter? It may be that we can do one bootable CD with three or more distributions on. Evil, huh? ;-)
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