On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:30:54 -0800 Mike Connors <[email protected]> dijo:
>> >> It does sound like fun. I've often thought about combining a short >> educational session with each Clinic. This might be an opportunity to >> try out the idea. >> >> I think we have at least one router and one switch in the PLUG box at >> Free Geek. Plus we have cables in abundance and probably >> miscellaneous other equipment. However, bear in mind that we will >> need our own network, as we don't have permission to install things >> on Free Geek's network. I'm sure everyone has already thought of >> that; I just wanted to mention it to be sure that everyone knows. >I'm fairly excited that you guys are jumping right into this. I've only >setup PXE boot installs for single OS, but here's a recent article on >how to do it for multiple OS'. >https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallMultiDistro. Do we have a >Server box? If not, I have a Free Geek Dell box that we could use. We have sufficient space in the PLUG cabinet to house a normal size desktop box, and we can always borrow a keyboard, mouse and monitor for those occasions when we need to use it. In other words, having a dedicated server could become a standard Clinic feature. I assume you want your Free Geek Dell box back. But if I understand things correctly, a server need not have a lot of RAM, CPU horsepower, or even disk space, as long as it has enough space to hold the distros. I have a box of the Windows 98 era (HP D7316A) that I would be delighted to donate. I obtained this box free as a discard found in a rental house. It needs a network card, and it has only 96 MB RAM and a 9.6 GB hard drive, but that should be enough for DSL or Puppy, and I wouldn't mind buying a second hard drive for it at Free Geek. I also have some leftover network cards. In fact, I think I am going to fire it up this afternoon and see if it will run. There may be a serious reason it was discarded. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
