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Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Stephen C. Daukas

At 11:42 PM 9/25/2001 -0400, Our Founder wrote: >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'll be there to help, and to keep an eye on extension cords, but I haven't played with anything beyond RedHat 6.2... I have time this week to help prepare for this august event, so if you need some help, let me know. Regards, Steve -- Stephen C. Daukas stephen(a)daukas.com (508) 845-9809 - home (508) (508) 612-2149 - mobile

Oct. 1, 2001

Install fest with WPILA on Thursday!

by Andy Stewart

Hi everybody, We will be having an install fest at WPI on Thursday, October 4th from 6 - 10 PM. I have several folks who have volunteered to make CDs and be installers - thanks gang! The main target of this install fest is the WPI community, but I won't turn away folks in need as long as there is room. I am, however, lacking in RSVPs from prospective installees. If you wish to have Linux installed on your machine, please send me an e-mail so that I can handle the logistics. Let's get the word out and hope for a great turnout! Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

Sept. 30, 2001

RE: [Wlug] Lancaster Project update

by Track

Good to see things went well at latest project. Hopefully I'll make the next one. It's also great to see some fellow Crusaders hacking it up. =) --Track (HC '99) -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Andy Stewart Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 5:30 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Cc: nsmith(a)holycross.edu; wrlinx(a)yahoo.com Subject: [Wlug] Lancaster Project update 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 _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Sept. 30, 2001

Lancaster Project update

by Andy Stewart

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

Sept. 30, 2001

Re: [Wlug] next week's installfest

by Andy Stewart

On Saturday 29 September 2001 01:05 am, you wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Keller, Tim wrote: > > 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. > > I was planning on grabbing as much as I can, however each > version of each distribution has a different set of Ximian Gnome > packages that run around 225MB a piece. > > What CDs do people plan on bringing? I'll be bringing my SuSE CDs. I have a slightly older SuSE 7.1 Pro which I could give to somebody if they want it. -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

Sept. 29, 2001

Re: [Wlug] next week's installfest

by Brian J. Conway

> I was planning on grabbing as much as I can, however each > version of each distribution has a different set of Ximian Gnome packages > that run around 225MB a piece. > > What CDs do people plan on bringing? As mentioned, I'm bringing five 3-CD sets of Mandrake 8.1. Since Ximian for 8.0 was released a few weeks ago and Ximian isn't too fond of Mandrake, being a KDE-centric distribution, I really think it's a non-issue (but I figured I'd throw it out anyways). 8.1 includes Gnome 1.4.1, so at least it's up-to-date, if not as pretty. Brian J. Conway dogbert(a)clue4all.net "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992

Sept. 29, 2001

RE: [Wlug] next week's installfest

by David Lee Ludwig

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Keller, Tim wrote: > 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. I was planning on grabbing as much as I can, however each version of each distribution has a different set of Ximian Gnome packages that run around 225MB a piece. What CDs do people plan on bringing? -- 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

Sept. 29, 2001

RE: [Wlug] next week's installfest

by Keller, Tim

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. -- 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 _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Sept. 28, 2001

next week's installfest

by David Lee Ludwig

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

Sept. 27, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Firewall on 486 w/8 MB of memory

by John Stoffel

doug> OK that means no kissing! :-) And I'm still fighting it. I might not be making it saturday. We'll see... doug> The box is up in Lancaster. It is a Unisys EVC-142. There are no doug> manuals available --- it was a second hand purchase. I can find doug> nothing about it on the web. :-( Ugh. Not good. doug> It has a 540 meg hard drive, the 8 meg you know about, and we doug> jury-rigged a CDrom drive on it (by jury-rigged I mean there was doug> only one IDE cable and it would not reach both the hard drive doug> and the CDrom if both were in the available bays so we simply doug> left the case open with the CD drive lying on a book on top.) That could do the trick for now. If we setup the system with a CDROM drive and a floppy drive, we can use the Oxygen LRP distribution, which has all the packages and stuff on CDROM, and the config on a write protected floppy. Or the standard LRP with a single floppy should work as well. doug> Bad news and good news here :-). The modem is internal. However doug> it is Listed as OK on the Linux Modem Compatibility list. It is doug> a US Robotics Model 0584 56K ISA. That should be ok. doug> Incidentally, the NIC cards they have are all 3COM model 3C509B doug> and there is a 3c509 module which seems to work ok with them. This is good too, since I think LRP supports these out of the box pretty much. These are PCI, right? Or are they ISA? Do you have the PPP dialout number, username and password yet as well? It might make sense to try and pre-configure an LRP diskette with all the info needed and see if it would just boot right from the start. I can take my existing images at home which are known to work and try to update them or this setup. Please realize that this box would be dedicated to LRP only, no real user logins allowed/needed? John

Sept. 27, 2001

Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Brian J. Conway

> Red Hat 7.2 should be ready by then... On that note, Mandrake 8.1 ISOs hit the primary mirror around 4 PM today (sshhhh) which I grabbed, so assuming all goes well with testing it this weekend, I'll be bringing 5 3-packs of CDs to the installfest of that. Now no need for an updates CD (I hope). =) Brian J. Conway dogbert(a)clue4all.net "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992

Sept. 27, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Thanks for your help

by doug waud

Hi > The *only* snag is that after I rebooted the machine, my settings don't > stay. Can anyone help me with that?!? I can give you a general view of what is involved. The details will depend upon the distro (I am familiar only with SuSE). Basically, when the beast boots the first thing it runs is a program init which is the mother of all programs. Init takes its clues from configuration files in the directory /etc/init.d where there are both files, like network the one we are interested in here, and directories named rc0.d through rc6.d. These subdirectories go with each runlevel. For example, when switching to runlevel 3, init is interested in rc3.d. If you look in rc3.d (try it!) you will see two set of files --- one set starts with K and other with S. These instruct init to run all the files with a K label and then all those with an S label. Thus the K's (kill) give init a clean slate and the S's (start) set up the new arrangement. For the case of shutting down and starting network stuff the K file will call the script network back up in /etc/init.d (remember there were files there) with the argument stop. On the other hand, if jumping to a runlevel where the network should be going, network will be called with the argument start. If you now go and look at the file /etc/init.d/network you will see a case selection with options start, stop, and others. Go take a look to get a feel for what is going on. Now, basically, what you want to do is add scripting to do what you have been doing manually. You can get the general idea by looking at the files already there to understand what is going on --- still the best way to start :-) ! Now, most distros do this all for you automatically through their configuration tools (like Yast --- yet another system tool --- in SuSE) and/or configuration files (SuSE has a master file /etc/rc.config where you and set parameters for a program SuSEconfig which then does all the dirty work behind the scenes). I do not know what distro you have nor if it were not SuSE would I be able to tell you what the configuration program is called (actually, I just remembered, I do know of one other --- Caldera has COAS). In any case, if you do not know what this general admin tool is for the distro you have, you can check the manual or, if that does not work, post to WLUG where I am sure someone will know about just about any distro out there :-) (I'll not be able to respond to this after today since I have to leave town tomorrow for a while.) Good luck doug

Sept. 26, 2001

RE: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Keller, Tim

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 _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Sept. 26, 2001

Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Aljerin L. Butler, Jr.

Andy Stewart wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug Hey, I have nothing better to do on my birthday :) I hope to see you there. Al Butler

Sept. 26, 2001

Thanks for your help

by Tim Trachimowicz

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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Sept. 26, 2001

Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Dan Potter

I've got a CD burner, so if anyone has any images they want me to burn, I can churn out some CDs. However, I'll also bring along my copy of Partition Magic 7.0 - I'm sure we can find a use for it :) (I can also probably bring people through a RedHat 7.x or a Mandrake 8.0 install.) Andy Stewart wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Sept. 26, 2001

Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by doug waud

Hi Andy > 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 seeking volunteers to do installations > If you are interested in attending, either as an installer, installee, or > voyeur, please send me an e-mail. I'm back in town by then so I'll show up. That way you can have someone to look after trivia like setting up the Tux cutout. I'll bring a few ethernet cables and a small hub since they turned out handy last time around. I'll also bring an extension cord or two since that also got used (until I pulled it out). (I thought about bringing a UPS but then I would just end up pulling out its power cord :-) I can bring my SuSE 7.2 disks in case anyone wants to go that way. Let me know if there is anything else I should bring. doug

Sept. 26, 2001

Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Charles R . Anderson

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:22:52AM -0400, Andy Stewart wrote: andystewart> OK...I'll let you know. Brian Conway is bringing 5 sets of Mandrake 8.0 andystewart> CDs. I'll bring my SuSE CDs for sure. Is the latest Redhat any good? Red Hat 7.2 should be ready by then...

Sept. 26, 2001

Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Andy Stewart

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

Sept. 26, 2001

RE: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Keller, Tim

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 _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Sept. 26, 2001

Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Brian J. Conway

> 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. Sign me up for an install or two (not that it doesn't turn into more of a concerted group effort anyways). I'll be bringing 5 pairs of Mandrake 8.0 CDs as well as an updates CD, and since I imagine I wouldn't get through more than an install or two, anyone's welcome to the left-overs, free of charge. -b

Sept. 26, 2001

Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Dave Coutu

Hey Andy, I used to work as a lab manager in Higgins for Sia, and if I remember correctly, the Discovery Classroom is the tiered lecture hall at the end of the second hall across from some of the ME Profs offices, and there is plenty of room and network drops in there for a pretty large group of installs. I think this is the classroom that laptops and docking stations were bought for... tho it's been a while, so I could be totally off. Hope this helps! Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Stewart" <andystewart(a)mediaone.net> To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:42 PM Subject: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest > 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.

Sept. 26, 2001

Re: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest

by Frank Sweetser

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:24:01PM -0700, Dave Coutu wrote: > Hey Andy, > > I used to work as a lab manager in Higgins for Sia, and if I remember > correctly, the Discovery Classroom is the tiered lecture hall at the end of > the second hall across from some of the ME Profs offices, and there is > plenty of room and network drops in there for a pretty large group of > installs. I think this is the classroom that laptops and docking stations > were bought for... tho it's been a while, so I could be totally off. Hope > this helps! Yup, that's the one... I don't think a whole lot of the network drops are live right now, but we should be able to supply a 24 port 10/100 switch and cabling. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 15 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you into super-edit-debug-compile mode? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs.)

Sept. 26, 2001

REMINDER: WLUG Group Project

by Andy Stewart

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

Sept. 26, 2001

WLUG discount on Happy Hacking keyboard

by Andy Stewart

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

Sept. 26, 2001