I received several personal email saying that 'expert' and 'must know' might be scaring people away from volunteering, so, here is the re-worded call for Distro Maintainers: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a call for official TCLUG distro maintainers. Real Time is going to put up a 180Gb Linux box called Gladiator for housing local copies of the 3 major distros; RedHat, Debian and Slackware. This box will be online for all TCLUG members to use except during installfests, which is when the box will be the NFS/FTP install server. Gladiator will also house a CDR, so we can burn iso images for people at installfests, which we have not been able to do. Unfortunately (for me) I do not have the time to maintain all 3 distros, so I am asking for volunteers to maintain these distro-trees on Gladiator. You must be willing to learn how to install your distro in both a cdrom based and network based instsallation. If you need experience on this, Real Time can help by letting you come into our lab and 'play' with a couple of boxes to practice installing your distro. You should know how or be willing to learn how to create boot floppies/cdrom for installation for both a network install and a cdrom install. You should understand how to make dd-able images of your distro's boot floppies. You should understand how to create iso images and keep them up to date, especially before installfests. If you don't know how I can give you the basic, the man pages and the HOWTO to fill in the blanks. You must be familiar with mirroring tools like: mirror, rsync, and wget. Most distros have good web pages about how to mirror their sites, I know redhat and debian have step-by-step instructions on it. You must have ssh (no one uses telnet anymore right?) If you are interested, please send me email. List your distro of choice, months/years of experience with the distro, and your email address. Thanks. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (612)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (612)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org