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 > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- -Shawn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111101/0629e77b/attachment.html>