Re: Install Fest Assistance?

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 You're welcome to attend. We've been running installfests since 1997. 
I don't recall seeing anyone at OLPC who looked out of place. 

A google search for Vaio PCG-505F brings up a Linux install HOWTO 
dated November 1999, as the first link. As I recall, machines from that 
era tended to come with 32 MB of memory, which wouldn't be enough 
for things like Firefox, OpenOffice, Gnome, etc. To get decent performance, 
you'd need to choose some lightweight alternatives. How much RAM 
does it have, and how big is the hard drive? 

Installing from a CD was apparently tricky back then for the Vaios, due to 
a severely nonstandard pcmcia cdrom drive that Sony shipped. it might 
be easier to do a network install, where the boot CD would be run by 
the BIOS, and the Linux installer would not need to read from the CD 
afterward. A pcmcia ethernet card is more likely to be supported by the 
installer. I'll bring my network install server. 


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Jamesha Y Fisher <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Hey Guys, 
> 
> I've been lurking around the mailing-list for few months, and came to the 
> meeting on Thursday(I was the stranger geeky girl who looked out of 
> place).Though, I can't become a regular member(I'm leaving next week after 
> being an intern in Boston for three months), I was wondering if anybody 
> could give me pointers on a sucessful install fest. I'm currently the 
> president over a Linux Community at my school, yet, as of late, we've always 
> had poor attendance at our install fests(we hold three a year). Does anybody 
> have any ideas on what I could do to generate interest, or things I could do 
> during the day? Usually, we help people install linux, but I feel we could 
> even do more. 
> 
> I hope to come to the Install Fest this weekend, as I have an interesting 
> laptop I'd like to install a new distro on(Google Sony Viao PCG-505F), 
> however, due to me trying to get stuff ready so I can leave labor day 
> weekend, I may not have too much time. However, blu seems to be an awesome 
> group, from what I can tell. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> 
> Jamesha "JamFish" Fisher 
> 
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