Someone needs to update the Installfest page ASAP!

Sam.

Dana Millaway wrote:

>Okay, this is cool.  I have cleared my calendar for this!  
>
>Now, keeping in mind that I am a raw beginner at Linux, what do I need to
>bring besides myself, the computer I want to load Linux on and some assorted
>power cables, keyboards, etc.?  Will I need to have CD's with a copy of some
>flavor of Linux or will we have network access?  Is there a preferred
>flavor?  Will there be an interpreter/liaison when all the experts go too
>fast and use too many acronyms? ;-)
>
>I have experience fdisking, reformatting and reloading windoze machines but
>it has been a while since I have dealt with command line interface.  The
>extent of my Linux is how to login, logout, change directories and list
>files.  Will it be a total waste of my time and someone else's as they show
>me the ropes, hopefully letting ME do the actual work?  I would really like
>to bring a used Dell Poweredge with a RAID setup that I would like to be our
>filtering/proxy server but if that is beyond what anyone wants to tackle in
>this setting, I would be happy to bring a PII or PIII and go from there.  
>
>Please don't flame me for not being a total geek.  I'm one the new Linux
>converts who's been lurking on the edge watching it develop and waiting
>until I thought I could wade in and not immediately drown.  :) 
>
>Thanks.
>
>Dana S. Millaway
>District Technology Coordinator
>Holdingford Public School
>
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