Any OS but a Linux OS would be, well, not right. I guess BSD or something would be OK but not a M$ OS. Can we add Slackware, it's a Minnesota grown distribution (just learned that) it would be good to promote something so close to home. Sam. Rick Meyerhoff wrote: > IMHO we should start with about 5 - 10 distros. The main general > purpose ones and also some for old/slow machines since there are > always several people who come to installfests with old machines. I'll > stick my neck out and suggest these as a start: > > general purpose: > Red Hat > SuSE > Mandrake > Debian > > light weight: > Damn Small Linux > Morphix > > The distro server needs to be set up to: > > 1. periodically retrieve the latest ISO images, mirrors, > updates, whatever for the distros. > > 2. run without a monitor, keyboard, mouse. It has to boot and > be ready to telnet in to. > > 3. be fairly secure. User's only need read access and be > able to use the CD drive(s). > > 4. do DNS for the fest. At least I think this would be a good idea. > > What OS should be running on the distro server? I'm tempted to > say XP but that would not even be funny. Ironic maybe but not funny. > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list