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 Bring everything that you need for the system. If you want sound to work then bring speakers. Please don't forget to bring the monitor. > 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? ;-) It will be up to you to get the geek to slow down and translate. Most of us are patient but not all. I will try to make it to the fest and I'll be wearing a name badge, flag me down. > > 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 You will do the work unless things get REALLY bad. If a guy named Munir or Jima has to help you then you know things are bad, but not hopeless. > 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. Bring the PIII and the Powersludge then you'll go home with at least one success and maybe two! I don't know how much space there is though, maybe someone else can comment. -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff _______________________________________________ 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