"what do I need to bring besides myself" Donuts would be nice! If you have a distribution you want to use bring it. Bring some burnable CD's if you don't have a distribution. Stick with the PIII if your going to bring a machine. Sam. Dana Millaway wrote: >Okay, this is cool. I have cleared my calendar for this! > >Now, keeping in mind that I am a raw beginner at Linux, what do I need to >bring besides myself, the computer I want to load Linux on and some assorted >power cables, keyboards, etc.? Will I need to have CD's with a copy of some >flavor of Linux or will we have network access? Is there a preferred >flavor? Will there be an interpreter/liaison when all the experts go too >fast and use too many acronyms? ;-) > >I have experience fdisking, reformatting and reloading windoze machines but >it has been a while since I have dealt with command line interface. The >extent of my Linux is how to login, logout, change directories and list >files. Will it be a total waste of my time and someone else's as they show >me the ropes, hopefully letting ME do the actual work? I would really like >to bring a used Dell Poweredge with a RAID setup that I would like to be our >filtering/proxy server but if that is beyond what anyone wants to tackle in >this setting, I would be happy to bring a PII or PIII and go from there. > >Please don't flame me for not being a total geek. I'm one the new Linux >converts who's been lurking on the edge watching it develop and waiting >until I thought I could wade in and not immediately drown. :) > >Thanks. > >Dana S. Millaway >District Technology Coordinator >Holdingford Public School > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list