> How strange. I mostly do Macs but I've done a couple of Red Hat 9 
> installations and one FreeBSD on typical PCs in the last few weeks. No 
> mention was made of floppy disks. Even my old 3rd edition of "Running 
> Linux" only mentions floppies as an alternative for when the user 
> can't/doesn't want to use LILO.

Slackware, Mandrake, and I think Debian all ask for boot disks.  My
experience in Linux installs is pretty much limited to these three,
though.  Even so, its always a good idea to have boot floppies available
in case anything goes wrong during the install, or after the install,
for that matter.


> It does occur to me that the list may not be complete. Are we doing 
> dual boot installs? Do we need to ask the users to bring a copy of 
> their old OS so we can put it back? Do we need to remind them to back 
> up their data because we are going to reformat their disks? Is there 
> too much stuff to fit on a flier? Should the flier just point to a web 
> page where we can discuss the preparations that they should make at 
> length?

The flyer's fine, methinks.  People wouldn't remember the
plug.phoenix.az.us address on a flyer anyhow. The site should have the
banner I designed up sometime before the installfest which will likely
point to the press release.

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// David Huerta
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