On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:59:31 -0500 Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > SCSI? Sorry, but that's just not cost-effective, even when sifting > through the junk pile. And, instead of a monstrous tower case, why not > try a Mini-ITX box? More than enough storage and computing power could > be put into a system smaller and lighter than most of the books I lugged > around throughout college (well, probably not quite, but damn close). Why not just take this idea one step further, and instead of contructing a box to maintain, why not just have some willing member maintain the distro server on a USB 2.0 or firewire external IDE drive? 120GB of storage is probably sufficient for our needs; that would allow for numerous different distros, and most of them would not be nearly that large. (Ipcop, Damn Small etc) A firewire or USB 2.0 PCMCIA card could round out the "distro server's" hardware.. in the event we had to press a port-incompatible laptop into service. Then, at the installfest, we'd just need to make sure that someone had a stable machine with the right ports.. which could be just about anything. Makes things easier to transport (and reduces the worry of damage; external drives are easier to protect, and since we will be 'borrowing' box hardware, we can rest assured that folks have taken reasonable care of their own stuff), and seems to make financial sense as well. Finally, Jima rolls a very tight RPM.. he has updated and fixed packages for various RH distros in varying distress. Would be good to include those as well, as available.. Anyway, my thoughts.. -L _______________________________________________ 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