[sf-lug] Sunday meeting at the Javacat--11 AM to 1 PM

jim stockford jim at well.com
Fri Mar 2 06:16:17 PST 2007


erk, the javacat machine's got CD,
not DVD.

On Mar 1, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting jim stockford (jim at well.com):
>
>>    wow! For Toni's purposes probably it would
>> be useful to bring a few from which to choose
>> that might be best laptop choices--sorry i don't
>> have her machine's info--I'm forwarding this
>> message and cajoling her to join the list
>
> I forgot to add:
>
> o  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 beta 2 aka v. 4.92 (2006-11-11)
>    Server Edition and Client Edition for i386 and for x86_64
>    (1 DVD each)
>
>> There is, at the Javacat, a machine that seems
>> mostly turned off but is there for SF-LUG folk
>> to use (i think 192.168.1.251 when it's on), and
>> we could use it to serve up images.
>
> If it has a DVD drive, you can copy _both_ the CDs and DVDs from my
> collection.  (You'll need to look up how to use the readcd utility, if
> it's unfamiliar.  Do "readcd -scanbus" and "readcd dev=ATAPI -scanbus"
> to find the right device specifier for the drive.)
>
> On the ever-popular question of choosing a distribution, my referenced
> page (http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/installfest/#distros) says:
>
>   Undecided? Totally lost? Try the Linux Distribution Chooser.[1] For
>   further background, read  Karsten's Distributions Guide[2] and 
> consult
>   DistroWatch[3].
>
> [1] http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
> [2] http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Linux/linux-new.html#distros
> [3] http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
>
> -- 
> Cheers,   "Why is the alphabet in that order?  Is it because of that 
> song?"
> Rick Moen                                              -- Steven Wright
> rick at linuxmafia.com
>
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