MichaelCodanti and AdamShand were talking the other day. They both have a bunch of PC's sitting around in our houses that we need to get rid of. Now we could just give them all to FreeGeek but we had another idea.

We get the feeling that there are a bunch of people out there with wireless gear but who aren't running NoCatAuth because getting a LinuxAccessPoint up and running is a little intimidating.

What if we pre-configured all of these boxes, had a big meeting where we walked everyone through configuring it for your home network, and sent you off home with a box that would work on your home network.

We would probably charge somewhere between $10 and $30 a box to cover things like additional NICs and other small bits and pieces that we don't just have lying around.

DonPark suggested that we also make this a swap meet where people could give away, sell or swap old hardware that they have lying around.

Please list your name if you have or know a space that can HOST the InstallFest.

Please list your name if you are interested in either helping out or getting a pre-setup computer (and which of those you fall under as well)!

• ChristianSeppa

• DanRichardson (Help setup others and finally get my Stylistic 1200 up and running)

• JeffZurcher needs help getting his box configured, will help(if I can), bring spare parts, beer and maybe bring some interested [http://www.vwlug.org/ VWLUG] members)

• AndrewWoods (would love to pay $10-$30 for a linux gateway)

• JakeGrubbs I'd love to build a box, and I've got a couple of 486s

• EliabHelon (i've got tons of stuff, mostly old 486 and pentium < 233, but still useful, and i'm glad to give it to anyone who can use it.)

• LucasSheehan (I have a good number of boxes I will happily contribute to this. And have some beer and fun at the same time, beer is allowed right!? ..)

• TomOffermann (I have a 486 laptop w/16 MB of RAM that I would like to set up. Is it powerful enough?)

  • A 486 will be fine but you probably want to round up another 16MB of RAM if you can. -- AdamShand

• ChadPatteson I've got a 486 dx33 tower with 8MB RAM. I guess I'll need a NIC, wireless card (and maybe more RAM). Willing to spend bucks to get it working as a node for my neighborhood. Great hands-on experience.

• SamChurchill I have a FreeGeek box, a Sharp Tri Pad and a 200Mhz Apple Power Computing that needs work. I'd like to install NoCat in my FreeGeek and trade my Tri Pad - along with some bonus bucks - for a Pentium laptop. I need to get on the air but I am stuck with dialup and don't have a compelling application. Except vanity.

• PatrickSullivan will come and would appreciate help installing nocat on his toshiba t2105 486-50 laptop running debian woody

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