Installfest questions....

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Author: Jim
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Subject: Installfest questions....
Good point, Kevin. Most of these boxes are probably going to have either
nothing installed or a version of Windoze. We can get the pertinent
information about the modem from Windoze or from the user. It would be best,
however, to have them bring the modem with, assuming it is not internal.

Minimum hardware? How about

Pentium-class CPU
Minimum 32M memory, the more the better
Monitor
Keyboard
Mouse
Modem

Maybe we need a separate web page on the PLUG web site so that all this
information can be available in one place.

On Saturday 25 May 2002 14:16, you wrote:
> Jim wrote:
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> > I think this, like all, Install Fests, should concentrate on the newbies
> > to Linux. As such, we should concentrate on getting up a familiar
> > desktop (KDE) and making sure that they can access the Internet.
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> This implies that we should have each person bring in their modem cables
> nad the phone number, username, password, etc. of their ISP so we can help
> set all of that up.
>
> Modem init strings can be a troublesome.
>
> We need to post some minimum hardware requirements to try to minimize the
> amount of incompatible hardware that is brought. Perhaps a link to the
> linux hardware compatibilty lists are in order.


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Jim

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