On 10/10/07, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Christensen wrote: > > It might be good if someone orders a bunch on behalf of the > > CLUG to give away at the meetings. > > Is that really a good use of the limited Linux marketing resource? Not really, but if Mark Shuttleworth wants to splurge his hundreds of millions giving away distro CDs, I'm not going to stop him, but yes it would be sensible not to abuse Mark's kindness.
> Chris has set up a whole distro mirror. It's not really a 'mirror' per se. i.e. it's not connected to the Internet. You have to turn up at the St. Albans Community Resource Centre with a minimal amount of small change and copy the files yourself using the Windows facilities available. > People can just bring a memory stick. A memory stick, of sufficient size, or a USB rotating hard drive is by far the best. Remember that your filesystem has to be Windows compatible, and if you are going to get an image of a DVD of something over 4GB I understand that that means NTFS. My exp. has been that using the ntfs-3g progams to make the filesystem is not reliable. I recommend - believe it or not - that one should use Windows-XP to make the filesystem on your portable usb drive. > or a plan CD/DVD The Centre has CDs, and I think DVDs, for sale very reasonably, but you can take your own. > Individuals should be encouraged to sign up for a single copy. > > What we should had out at the meetings is some business cards with the > web address on them for people to hand out. What URL web address are you suggesting? > Do we have instructions on how to burn a linux iso to cd on the web site > (for windows user)? No. The CD copying facilities are the Windows program called 'NERO'. Take care that you select the facility which allows a bit-for-bit copy from the file to the CD. A Google search on "nero cd iso burning instructions" as the search term gives dozens of good-looking documents. Please be aware that the folks who volunteer as helpers at the centre have not been trained up about cutting CDs at all. So you are on your own except on Tuesday afternoons, when Wesley is there, and Saturday between 1:00pm and 3:00pm when Gordon Taylor is on duty. DVD copying is quite a time-consuming business, so if at all possible please try to get there as soon after 11:00am as possible, because their computer room gets busy in the afternoons. I will be going over there the day after tomorrow - this Friday - in the afternoon to update the SuSE, Puppy-Linux, and the SystemRescueCD files in the archive. We have decided to give this exercise a 6 month trial. That's to say that if you don't use it, it will go they way of all mortal beings during the second week end of April 2008. OTOH if it's a rip-roaring success with lots of CDs and DVDs being created, I'll be having a whip round to buy a large disk drive especially for the purpose. ( St. Albans have offered a DVD writer ) The drives will be installed in a Linux machine so we'll have K3B, the Gnome equivalent, as well as CDrecord for the command line aficionados among us -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
