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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111101/12dc7b58/attachment.html>