IMHO we should start with about 5 - 10 distros. The main general purpose ones and also some for old/slow machines since there are always several people who come to installfests with old machines. I'll stick my neck out and suggest these as a start: general purpose: Red Hat SuSE Mandrake Debian light weight: Damn Small Linux Morphix The distro server needs to be set up to: 1. periodically retrieve the latest ISO images, mirrors, updates, whatever for the distros. 2. run without a monitor, keyboard, mouse. It has to boot and be ready to telnet in to. 3. be fairly secure. User's only need read access and be able to use the CD drive(s). 4. do DNS for the fest. At least I think this would be a good idea. What OS should be running on the distro server? I'm tempted to say XP but that would not even be funny. Ironic maybe but not funny. -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff rick at eworld3.net 952-929-1659 _______________________________________________ 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