Re: EMC Kit

I've proposed this a couple of times with zero expressed interest.
I can't say there isn't any interest, but nobody has shown any.

That's market research; if nobody expresses any interest, then I'll
devote my resources to activities that pay the bills.

Part of our business is supplying Linux servers. We've
been doing that for years.

I will probably still do this, but it's not a high priority task right
now. If I did this, it would probably be a 1-2 gig IDE drive ready to
go for around $100. SCSI could be done as well, maybe add $10-20. 1
yr drive warranty, plus shipping, MI residents add tax, yadda yadda.
4-6 Gig IDE drive, probably $160, 3-5 yr warranty. Is anyone
interested?

Once you have a working system, upgrading it is pretty straightforward.
Getting it working in the first place can be lots of fun.

>
> From: "Dan Mauch" <dmauch@...>
>
> I think sending out a completely loaded hard drive is the better way because
> I have found that on the 4 hard drives that I have loaded the red hat and
> emc files on that all the user really had to do was to install the hard
> drive. So far the generic VGA monitor and display seems to work on the 4
> different pc that I have done.
> The last two only required the mouseconfig to be reset. Other than that it
> was really easy for the user to plug in the hard drive and turn on the PC. I
> think it takes about 5 minutes for the user to install it.
> The only problem I see is if the user wants a custom set up. But for a PC
> that is going to be working in a shop environement I don't see why a
> dedicated harddrive approach would not work anything but easier than trying
> to load it onto a cdrom and still having the same set up problems to deal
> with.
> The hardware setup would be dictated such as
> Pentium 90+
> 32 Mb of Ram
> 3.5 floppy
> mouse
> SVGA multisync monitor
> SVGA multisysnc video card
> keyboard
> 1 gig hard drive
>
> Dan
>

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