RE: [Nolug] need lots of knoppix copies

Yea, like that there.
I must have missed the Windows open source thingys.

Ok, with boot from CD option, how are you going to reconfigure your
settings?
Or are you expecting to run from a CD-RW?
Maybe a diskette app that rewrites specific files?

On the CD Distro Pack, I have found that when configuring Web/E-mail Servers
and such that part of the instructions include downloading some package
and/or dependant package. I would like these to be part of the CD with
specific NEWBIE instructions on how to setup basic functional
configurations.
(trying to setup e-mail on my Suse box makes me cry. I have VERY bad
instructions.)

On the Windows apps, I hate to admit it, but I'm more comfortable exploring
a new package on a windows box.
I do a lot on my Linux box, but not much experimenting. I've been fighting
windows for 13 years.
I've only worked with 2 distros of Linux.

Anyway, I want to learn, and I want to help.
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
Behalf Of Joey Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 01:38 PM
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: Re: [Nolug] need lots of knoppix copies

<snip>

>I have DSL here and a bit of free time during the day, so if you compile a
>list of links that go directly to the files you want on a CD, I will
>download and burn a copy.

Thanks. We'll work on a list. Maybe one of the precompiled windows OSS CDs
will work.

>Only stipulation is that the finished CD has all
>the required files to configure a basic WEB/Email server with Firewall for
>that distro.

I'd rather leave that to the distro. Most disros have wizards for that sort
of thing.

Um, wait, are we on the same page? The compilation CD is for WINDOWS
open-source programs, sush as Mozilla, OOoo, etc. There's no use compiling a
CD of Linux apps; these are already included in most distros.

To clarify:

1). We need a boot-from-the-CD distro that runs in memory (nothing is
written
to the hard drive; when they reboot, they're back in Windows-land).

2). We need various regular distros on CD that are newbie-friendly: SuSE,
Fedora (the new redhat), Mandrake, Linux From Scratch, etc.

3). We need a collection of open source apps that run on windows. If we get
them using mozilla and openoffice, they're half the way towards migrating to
Linux. We can compile a CD or use one of the pre-existing ones. See earlier
posts for links.

>
<snip>

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Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Computer Networking Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
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