[ale] DragonCon: InstallFest?, Crypto Party?

[Ted W.]

I'd love to do an InstallFest. I probably won't have the time to do too
much organizational work but can be available during the weekend to help
with installation and questions. I can also do some pre-event prep work
to pull down mirrors and create some install media depending on how we
decide to tackle that.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:45:51AM -0400, Kyle Brieden wrote:
> PXE doesn't have to do a fully automated, touch-free install, though.  We
> can simply serve up live disks to get around needing to have tons of USB
> drives on hand.
> 
> On that same token, though, if someone wants to learn to do the install via
> USB, it'll be easy to walk them through that, too.  We can grab a USB disk,
> teach them how to create a live USB, and they're off to the races.  Having a
> PXE environment set up can be a convenience for people who choose to use it.
> 
> ---
> Very respectfully,
> Kyle Brieden
> 
> On 30-03-2017 06:22, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> >On 03/29/2017 09:49 PM, Kyle Brieden wrote:
> >>If we have enough prep time, it should be *relatively* easy to pull down
> >>mirrors of the major distro repos and just host them on a server on the
> >>switch.  We don't have to pull down exhaustive repos, just the main,
> >>security, etc... repos.  We can serve up a PXE environment, then have a
> >>local repos and that should do just fine.
> >>
> >
> >PXE is too much "magic", IMHO.  Unless how-to setup up a PXE boot server
> >for home is included.
> >
> >The issue with using PXE is that it doesn't teach someone how to create
> >a USB flash drive or use an ISO. Learning to create and boot from a
> >flash drive is an important skill. For someone outside our community,
> >they've probably never heard of an ISO, much less touched one.
> >
> >Just another opinion.
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