Hi Everybody,
We will be having an install fest at WPI on Thursday evening, October 4th,
from 6 PM to 10 PM in "the Discovery Classroom", aka Higgins Labs room
218. I am mainly aiming this at WPI students, but certainly anybody else
who wants to get Linux installed is most welcome to join us.
I don't know if I've seen this classroom...could somebody from WPI tell me
how many computers we could reasonably accomodate in this room? This is
just in case we get overwhelmed with folks requesting installations.
I am seeking volunteers to do installations as well as folks who wish
to get Linux installed fo the first time. I'll give preference to full
installs, but if there are some folks who need to have some piece of Linux
configured, we can do that on a space available basis.
As in the past, I would like to suggest a $10 donation for installees.
This will help to defray the cost of making CDs which you can take with
you after the install fest. If you have your own Linux CDs, we'll do our
best to get that version installed for you.
If you are interested in attending, either as an installer, installee, or
voyeur, please send me an e-mail.
Thanks!
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
HI everybody,
Here is an update on the Lancaster, MA project which started yesterday.
I showed up around 10:30 AM and two other fellows from Holy Cross came to
join me. They left around 5 PM and I stayed until about 7 PM.
We installed additional hard drive in two machines onto which we installed
SuSE Linux. The installation went smoothly, as did the X windows
configuration. The problems started with the networking.
Mixing ISA and PCI cards in a system is problematic. I have discovered
the hard way that the motherboard picks the PCI card interrupts, and if
they interfere with the ISA card, too bad! Some motherboards allow you to
exclude interrupts from being used by the PCI cards - some don't. At
least the really old ISA cards had jumpers so you *knew* which interrupt
it wanted...the "new" ISA cards don't even have this, so you're doubly
screwed.
The systems both had ISA NICs. We eventually got one of them working
(perhaps by accident). I finally swapped out the other one for a PCI NIC
which worked almost immediately.
I played with Coyote Linux on the old 486SX with 16 MB of memory after we
had performed a memory upgrade and a proper CDROM drive installation.
Coyote Linux appears to be a continuation of the work started by the Linux
Router project. Its benefits are that it fits on a single floppy, appears
to be more up to date than LRP, and is definitely easier to configure.
After playing with the modem jumpers and after shutting off the
motherboard COM ports, I was able to get Coyote Linux running, pinging the
local network, and dialing the ISP on demand. In short, it was acting
properly as a router for the other two Linux machines - yipee!
Our host had quite a spread for us at lunchtime consisting of broccoli
quiche, chips and hot sauce, soda, and more!
My thanks to Neel and Ryan (from Holy Cross) for coming to help out, and
to Warren (our host) for a great lunch and for asking for our help.
I expect that we'll be taking another trip to Lancaster in about a month
to install CUPS, perhaps SAMBA, configure two printers and a scanner,
enable full access from all machines to those printers, to enable a packet
filtering firewall on the 486, and to insure that everything else is in
proper working order.
Later,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
What you might want todo is just grab everything; debs, rpms and tarballs.
That way, not matter what distribution we load, we'd be able to install.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Lee Ludwig [mailto:davidl@WPI.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:40 PM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: [Wlug] next week's installfest
For next week's installfest, is anyone going to be burning multiple copies
of some particular distribution? If so, what? I was thinking of making
some CDs with Ximian Gnome on it.
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davidl<at>wpi.edu | danger. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself.'
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For next week's installfest, is anyone going to be burning multiple copies
of some particular distribution? If so, what? I was thinking of making
some CDs with Ximian Gnome on it.
--
David Ludwig | "The Linux philosophy is laugh in the face of
davidl<at>wpi.edu | danger. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself.'
http://www.wpi.edu/~davidl | That's it." - Linus Torvalds
HI gang,
As part of the Lancaster MA project, there is a 486 machine with 8 MB of
memory which we would like to make into a firewall. I'm seeking
recommendations on how best to do this. Are we memory limited, or can
this work, and if so, how?
Can we put at least a minimal installation of something on this machine,
or are we going to have to explore the single floppy firewall solutions
such as the Linux Router project?
Finally, is there somebody who would like to volunteer for Saturday 9/29
to explicitly help with solving this problem?
Thanks,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
Andy,
Like usual, I'll volunteer and I'll do the CD's for you.
Just let me know what distribution you want and I'll come up with a graphic
of some kind.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@mediaone.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:43 PM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest
Hi Everybody,
We will be having an install fest at WPI on Thursday evening, October 4th,
from 6 PM to 10 PM in "the Discovery Classroom", aka Higgins Labs room
218. I am mainly aiming this at WPI students, but certainly anybody else
who wants to get Linux installed is most welcome to join us.
I don't know if I've seen this classroom...could somebody from WPI tell me
how many computers we could reasonably accomodate in this room? This is
just in case we get overwhelmed with folks requesting installations.
I am seeking volunteers to do installations as well as folks who wish
to get Linux installed fo the first time. I'll give preference to full
installs, but if there are some folks who need to have some piece of Linux
configured, we can do that on a space available basis.
As in the past, I would like to suggest a $10 donation for installees.
This will help to defray the cost of making CDs which you can take with
you after the install fest. If you have your own Linux CDs, we'll do our
best to get that version installed for you.
If you are interested in attending, either as an installer, installee, or
voyeur, please send me an e-mail.
Thanks!
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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Hey folks!
After reading all those replies I took to crafting a message which answered
the questions posed to me and went step-by-step through the processes I had
done so far. After doing everything, lo-and-behold my NIC actually worked
and I was able to get online with my DSL connection. I guess I must've
mistyped something somewhere. So, it looks like it works ok now.
The *only* snag is that after I rebooted the machine, my settings don't
stay. Can anyone help me with that?!?
Thanks!
--Track
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Cool,
I'll make a set of cd's with the latest mandrake patches on them, along with
the latest redhat/Suse/Debian distributions.
I'm also thinking that a set of CD's with:
latest kernel: 2.4.10
Mozilla (0.9.4)
Star office for linux
[would like some input on what else should be put on here (like the latest
Wolfenstein MP test :-)]
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@mediaone.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 8:23 AM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 08:06 am, you wrote:
> Andy,
>
> Like usual, I'll volunteer and I'll do the CD's for you.
Cool..thanks Tim!
>
> Just let me know what distribution you want and I'll come up with a
> graphic of some kind.
OK...I'll let you know. Brian Conway is bringing 5 sets of Mandrake 8.0
CDs. I'll bring my SuSE CDs for sure. Is the latest Redhat any good?
Andy
>
> Tim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@mediaone.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:43 PM
> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
> Subject: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest
>
>
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> We will be having an install fest at WPI on Thursday evening, October
> 4th, from 6 PM to 10 PM in "the Discovery Classroom", aka Higgins Labs
> room 218. I am mainly aiming this at WPI students, but certainly
> anybody else who wants to get Linux installed is most welcome to join
> us.
>
> I don't know if I've seen this classroom...could somebody from WPI tell
> me how many computers we could reasonably accomodate in this room? This
> is just in case we get overwhelmed with folks requesting installations.
>
> I am seeking volunteers to do installations as well as folks who wish
> to get Linux installed fo the first time. I'll give preference to full
> installs, but if there are some folks who need to have some piece of
> Linux configured, we can do that on a space available basis.
>
> As in the past, I would like to suggest a $10 donation for installees.
> This will help to defray the cost of making CDs which you can take with
> you after the install fest. If you have your own Linux CDs, we'll do
> our best to get that version installed for you.
>
> If you are interested in attending, either as an installer, installee,
> or voyeur, please send me an e-mail.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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HI gang,
This is a reminder about the WLUG group project, where we will install
Linux on 4 machines in Lancaster MA this coming Saturday, Sept. 29th.
We'll be networking them together, connecting 2 printers and configuring
them for access by all machines (including a Windows machine), configuring
a modem for dial out, and if time allows, we'll configure a USB scanner.
I currently have very few responses. We don't need an army of folks, but
3 - 5 more committed folks would probably do the trick.
Please send me an e-mail if you definitely plan to attend.
Later,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
Hi gang,
I have no personal connection with this vendor, and I apologize in advance
if you consider this spam.
The folks at www.pfuca.com who make the Happy Hacking keyboard have
extended a $20 discount to WLUG members who wish to purchase any one of
their keyboard models. If we (as a group) purchase five, we can get one
free (and then fight over it!!!). (Maybe I'll buy one for the raffle...).
I am sick of the escape key being in the wrong place and am considering
this purchase. If anybody else is interested, please let me know so I can
coordinate the group order.
Send me e-mail if you are interested in the details.
Later,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
