RE: BDI EMC Announcement

Paul,

On behalf of the group, let me congratulate you on your effort to make this
cd available. I think that you have done us all a big favour. Something
like this is long overdue. Hopefully more of us "brain dead idiots" will be
able to use EMC without going "bonkers" in the process.

Deon Styger

-----Original Message-----

>Hi Folks

>After several months of work - And quite a few late nights.
>The Brain Dead Install for EMC is finally ready. It will be available at

NAMES

>at the end of the month for $10 per CD. (maybe a little less if I can get
>sufficient quantities burnt in time).

>The minimum recommended hardware is as follows :

>Pentium class processor - Not WinChip
>16Mb Ram
>420Mb IDE Hard drive - 1Gb for a programmers install
>CDROM drive - preferrably one that you can boot from.
>Colour graphics card
>Colour monitor that can do 800x600 or better
>Plus a mouse and keyboard.
>1.4Mb floppy drive is optional, as is a network card.

>There is no support for SCSI drives USB or sound.

>The kernel is built from a virgin 2.2.18 and rtlinux 3.0 sources. Also
>included is the sources for the latest 2.4.2 kernel.

>A typical install will autodetect most standard hardware and from start to
>finish takes about 30 minutes. No work is involved in patching or compiling
>source code unless you want to.

>To reserve your copy, please email me, paul.corner@... with
>RESERVE BDI EMC in the subject header.

>Ray, rehenry@... will be the main point of contact for anyone wishing to
>recieve a copy via mail in the USA. These will be available in May, when I
>should be in a position to handle enquiries from the rest of the world.

>Regards, Paul.

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