A brief informal description of the 17 Oct 1997 Linux installation attempt.

   More than 20 people were present, including several officers and members of
the Marquette Computer Society.

   We started at 1 PM.

   We had brought two linux boxes into the room. We plugged our new machine of
last week, still called guest, into the Net and hooked its monitor signal to
the big screen. The other machine was the original warrior, which we plugged
into the Net to the side of the room. Aryashree Barik managed the console of
guest.
   Next we let the machines `ping' one another, while unplugging and replugging
the Net connections to show that the two machines referenced one another's
network cards. We unplugged one machine, and ran netconfig on both. With
netconfig we can change the Net identity of the machines. We made the new
machine into warrior, and the old one into guest. We plugged both machines into
the Net, and rebooted. Behold! The machines had swapped identity.
   Finally we tried to install the X window system. We ran XF86Setup. First
initialize the mouse. This was a delicate operation, since we are not allowed
to touch the mouse at this stage. After several attempts we were done. As
screen resolution we chose VGA, which is an almost universally available option
on all monitors. Then type startx, and voila. We ran X, be it in low
resolution.
  I think we were done before 3 PM.

Wim Ruitenburg