[BLU/Officers] Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LXX Saturday July 27, 2019

[Jerry Feldman]

Not sure it is that useful for installfest. This only services 1 user at a
time. It might help preparing

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:09 PM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks useful. I ordered one, along with an SSD drive. We can try it out on
> Saturday.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 7:00 AM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> useful device for installfests etd:
>>
>> USB/disk case/controller that makes folder to hold ISOs, which it will
>> let you mount and boot from.  Put an SSDin it for wicked fast installs.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/p01arst0rm/status/1153266507734028290?s=19
>> http://www.zalman.co.kr/na/contents/products/view.html?no=20
>> on AMZN as "IODD 2531"
>>
>> (i don't see it on MicroCenter.  If someone has Evil PRIME service, might
>> be able to get it before Saturday.)
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 11:18 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Boston Linux Installfest LXX
>>> When: Saturday July 27, 2019, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
>>> Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
>>> 2 Amherst St, Cambridge
>>> http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm
>>> Parking is free at the E-51 lot in front of the building.
>>>
>>> Lunch is generously sponsored by Ron Thibeau owner of Bluefin Technical
>>> Services
>>>
>>> What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
>>> Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
>>> In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
>>> expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
>>> distros are using Live images that you can try out and then install.
>>> This can be copied to DVDs or USB sticks.There are a number of USB
>>> creators, such as UNetbootin (https://unetbootin.github.io/). Both
>>> Fedora and Ubuntu have a USB creator built in.
>>>
>>> COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
>>> welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.
>>>
>>> Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system.  While
>>> Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
>>> hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
>>> pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
>>> distros, our volunteers will normally have
>>>
>>>        Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
>>>        Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
>>>         Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.
>>>
>>> Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
>>> Ubuntu distributions:
>>>        * Fedora - https://getfedora.org/ (Fedora 30 Live DVD/USB)
>>>        * Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com ( 18.04.1 LTS DVD/USB or 19.04)
>>>        * other distros can easily be downloaded at the Installfest
>>>
>>> We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
>>> USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
>>> bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
>>> distros. Live images require about 1.5GB. I usually have some USBs
>>> prepared or can easily burn a USB.
>>>
>>> We usually have both a Wired and Wireless network available.
>>> The preferred wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT". In addition John does set
>>> up a local wifi.
>>>
>>>
>>> In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
>>> machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
>>> Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
>>> machine and run Windows as a guest. Linux has a built-in virtual memory
>>> system, but you can also download and install
>>> VirtualBox 6.0 (http://www.virtualbox.org) which is free and is
>>> available for Linux, Windows
>>> 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally,
>>> there are also some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.
>>>
>>> Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
>>> information and directions. There is a parking lot in front of
>>> the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator
>>> your left down to the basement. Room 016 is directly across from the
>>> elevator.
>>>
>>> --
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