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<DIV><SPAN class=535051110-01112011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>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. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=535051110-01112011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=4>Chuck</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Shawn Fertch<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 01, 2011 4:37
AM<BR><B>To:</B> TCLUG Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [tclug-list]
Installfest suggestion: other distros<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 01:24, Andrew Berg <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:bahamutzero8825@gmail.com">bahamutzero8825@gmail.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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<DIV class=im><BR></DIV>Wouldn't it be more efficient and easier to just
have various images on<BR>hand and burn to disc or copy to flash drives as
needed? It would be<BR>almost trivial for someone to have live CD/DVD/flash
drive images<BR>available on one of his/her hard drives at an installfest. I
have a few<BR>hundred GB free on my laptop drives and another couple hundred
GB free<BR>on a portable external drive I carry myself, so space is not an
issue. I<BR>think Brian had tons of blank CD-Rs and a few flash drives, so
media<BR>shouldn't be an issue either. There weren't any blank DVDs around
at the<BR>last installfest, but I have plenty that I could bring in case
someone<BR>wants a disc with a heftier version of a distro (or has a dodgy
optical<BR>drive like me that doesn't like to boot from CDs :P
).<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>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.<BR><BR>I think the old system finally gave up the ghost. Or, the
installfests did due to lack of participation, facilities, etc.<BR
clear=all><BR>-- <BR>-Shawn<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>