Installfest questions....

[der.hans]

Am 26. May, 2002 schwätzte Victor Odhner so:

> And any install we do will include a pass through
> Bastille.  RIGHT?

If we use Bastille we have to explain it to them as we run through it. Yeah,
it's fairly self-explanatory, but not if they don't see it.

> ... which implies we need to bring along a few spare
> CD drives and NICs for temporary use, right?

Those items need to go on the 'hw we need' list.

> Inficad, on the other hand, required me to create a
> login script before kppp could make a connection.

Details ( phone number, username, passwd, etc. ) need to go on the 'what you
need for the install' page.

> I wonder if we could get a stock of 56k externals
> from some vendor -- I don't know anything about
> selling on consignment, tax issues, etc.

I'm thinking that's difficult, but someone's free to refute it :).

We need to double-check with Thurman that we're allowed to sell hardware.

If we are, I will talk to one store and see if we can't arrange for them to
show up with a small set of common things for sale.

If we're allowed to sell someone from PLUG could do the same thing.

Also the Sccts Pavillions are 2 miles from SCC and they have a couple of
stores that would have computer hw.

> BIG POINT.  Should we mention this in the press
> release?  It won't create any good will for us to
> be breaking people's AOL access, with them finding
> out too late!

Not in the press release, but on the page about requirements.

> Does our announcement mention how much disk space the
> box needs to have AVAILABLE to load Linux?

Again, not the press release, but on the requirements page.

> Will people understand that they have to give up some
> or all of their Windows space, that Linux can't just
> be installed "under" Windows?

They will if they read the requirements page.

> Some of the machines that come in will have an old BIOS
> and may need to boot LILO from floppy.  Do we need to
> have a fistful of fresh LILO floppies available?

We should just have a stack of blank floppies to go with the blank CDs and
the cdwriter.

ciao,

der.hans
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