Re: Debian booth at FOSDEM 2006

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 06:20:40PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Wouter Verhelst (wouter@debian.org):
> > Frans, I presume you already know about this; but just in case, put you
> > in Cc.
>
> Keeping the CC as I don't know whether Frans is subscribed or not to -events-eu.
>
> > Hmm. Getting a projector at the booth might be problematic, due to the
> > fact that there's not going to be much space to do that (booths are
> > traditionally placed in a hallway, which isn't much more than 3m wide
> > anyway...)
>
> Yep, we have the same problem at Solutions Linux..:-)

*g*

> > Does anyone have a largish monitor?
> >
> > > Please note that babelbox needs another machine to run. The other
> > > machine will host the DHCP/TFTP/WWW server needed for the installation
> > > process (it uses a netboot ISO).
> >
> > I presume it's going to be faster with a local mirror, too? Or can the
> > installation use a local CD-ROM for the .debs?
>
> Way faster with a local mirror, yes. I wanted to mention it but
> forgot.

Right, I thought as much. We'll need a mirror then; experience tells me
that the network at FOSDEM is usually a flaky 10Mbit connection, at
best. Constantly doing installations over that isn't going to be
appreciated by the FOSDEM network people, I presume.

> Probably not possible to use a CD or DVD because the image used is a
> netboot image of the graphical installer (we currently have only
> netboot images for g-i).
>
> I'm currently polishing the whole stuff and it runs fairly well....

Cool.

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