Yes, it did say any distro.  I was referring to the use of a LUG system
that hosted the different distros on the LAN and was brought to the
installfest.  Perhaps that part eluded you...

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 05:23, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote:

> **
> Notice that the announcement stated that any distro could be installed.
> That would be the case, regardless whether Jason brought his CDs.  Unlikey
> there is an installfest site anywhere that is better equipped or nicer than
> TIES for an installfest.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:
> tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]*On Behalf Of *Shawn Fertch
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 01, 2011 4:37 AM
> *To:* TCLUG Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [tclug-list] Installfest suggestion: other distros
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 01:24, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Wouldn't it be more efficient and easier to just have various images on
>> hand and burn to disc or copy to flash drives as needed? It would be
>> almost trivial for someone to have live CD/DVD/flash drive images
>> available on one of his/her hard drives at an installfest. I have a few
>> hundred GB free on my laptop drives and another couple hundred GB free
>> on a portable external drive I carry myself, so space is not an issue. I
>> think Brian had tons of blank CD-Rs and a few flash drives, so media
>> shouldn't be an issue either. There weren't any blank DVDs around at the
>> last installfest, but I have plenty that I could bring in case someone
>> wants a disc with a heftier version of a distro (or has a dodgy optical
>> drive like me that doesn't like to boot from CDs :P ).
>>
>
> This is how it used to be, back in the day.  Someone had an old system
> they donated to the LUG for installfests that had enough space to hold
> pretty much every major distro's current release and at least one back.
> ISO images then be copied to media and installed from.
>
> I think the old system finally gave up the ghost.  Or, the installfests
> did due to lack of participation, facilities, etc.
>
> --
> -Shawn
>
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-Shawn
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