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Paul Sutton wrote: >>> I have the computers and am a bit worried about whether I have enough >>> monitors or indeed enough network cards or power leads or network >>> leads etc to join them together. I have been busting a gut in an >>> attempt to get equipment together but I haven't got the knowledge to >>> know what I will need. >>> > I can't help with monitors, but should be able to collect together some > network leads, power leads at least, if other people do the same, then > hopefully we will end up with too many which is better than not enough. > > In fact I rescued a plastic box from the skip at the school i work so I > have just put a 5 cat 5 leads in there, along with a few power leads, > > Out of interest if we start with a small number of nodes, get that > working then add to it, I spoke to neil S on the chat channel and it > seems a simple case of boot from network, however if we link 12 > computers, > > Does anyone have a network cable tester, that may be useful just in > case we need to determine if a length of cat 5 cable is bad. > > Paul > Will need.. 1 x LAN cable for each node 1 x power lead per node 1 x NIC per node (with PXE boot ideally) 1 x network port per node 1 x system to be server 1 x monitor for server 1 x keyboard for server 1 x mouse for server 1 x LAN cable for server 1 x NIC for server 1 x CD or DVD drive for the server (boot from this initially) 4 x cans of coke per atendee 1 x bag of food per atendee I will see if I can get my lan cable tester there. I will not put money on being able to attend, but I will do my best.. I don't think that lack of internet access will be a major problem, just requires a bit of pre-planning and software downloading in advance. HTH Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html