[ale] DragonCon: InstallFest?, Crypto Party?

[Kyle Brieden]

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.

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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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