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The following is an email that was sent to the Irish OpenSolaris User Group

Hi All,

We're going to hold our 4rd meeting next week - on Tuesday 29th August.

Here are the details for the meeting:

Topic	InstallFest! (BYOM)
Date	Tue 29th August
Time	6:30pm onwards
Location	Sun Offices, East Point Business Park(directions)

Rather than give a talk, our main topic this month will be an InstallFest - we're going to show you how to install the OpenSolaris-based distribution of your choice. We'll have an install server at the meeting with all of the various distributions available:

• Solaris Express
• Belenix
• Nexenta
• SchilliX
• MarTux

There will be experts on-hand[1] who can help you to install and configure your desktop or laptop, as well as a bunch of machines for burning ISO images of these distributions, just bring along your own blank DVD-R, CD-R or CDRW media and we'll burn copies of OpenSolaris for you.

We'll also have available the latest OpenSolaris sources & compilers, so you get to use our bandwidth for free, if you want to start investigating the source.

We're starting the meeting slightly earlier this month to accommodate the additional time it'll take to install machines, but don't worry if you can't quite make our start time.

And, for you hardware-heads, our install server will hopefully be a Thumper (SunFire x4500) so if you're interested in experiencing what 48-disks-in-a-4u-box is like at full throttle, you won't want to miss this opportunity: we'd be happy to give an ad-hoc demo of the machine, and what was done in OpenSolaris to support it - ZFS runs pretty nicely on a 48-disk machine.

Thoughts and comments are welcome, and otherwise, see you on August 29th! Tell your friends, and feel free to publicise this meeting everywhere!

cheers,

tim

[1] as well as copies of the Sys Rescue CD just in case - make a backup before we start playing with your machines!