I'd like another "volunteer" machine, part of the idea is to test the
live cd on a variety of machines.

still with Chris and rob's machines ot install to, and Rob's laptop machines
to use as volunteers we should be able to test the process.

excellent.

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:21:22 +1200
"Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I can bring 2 laptops if required - 2GHz, 500Mb RAM
> 
> Also if nobody else volunteers I can bring a desktop, which currently runs
> Mandrake, which we can switch to Gentoo.
> 
> Regards, Robert
> 
> If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, 30 June 2003 1:14 p.m.
> To:   CLUG
> Subject:      Gentoo dry run tonight - some organisation please
> 
> We are supposed to be doing a dry run gentoo/distcc run through tonight. 
> 
> May I suggest we try installing onto two machines, using two other
> machines as "volunteer" servers[1], and having a portage/distfiles
> server too.
> 
> I will be bringing my machine as portage/distfiles server, and we need
> two volunteer machine, and two to install on.
> 
> So, two volunteer machines should be fairly grunty and be able to boot
> off a cd, and have a linux compatible nic (standard kernel, not
> something we have to download). "We will not touch your hard drive" (TM),
> they may even run windows in another life.
> 
> correction R Fisher is bringing a laptop as a volunteer, so one more
> needed.
> 
> two machines to install onto. These may be barebones with a spare
> partition, or may be a machine with a partial gentoo install, which
> needs some packages updating/adding. They need not be grunty, but all we
> are after is proof of concept.
> 
> you will need to bring the whole kaboodle, monitor, keyboard, power
> boxes, extension cords, net cable etc.
> 
> 
> Please get back to me asap. 
> 
> [1] in the distcc world the grunty machines which help others with
> compilation are the "volunteers". Gotta get with the jargon :-)
> -- 
> Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 

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