[FADCA] More FPAC Linux neat stuff.

[bud thompson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>
To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association" 
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 06:40
Subject: Re: [FADCA] More FPAC Linux neat stuff.


> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 05:42:42 -0500, bud thompson <budt at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>> Chuck
>>
>> Will the Tampa Hamfest be too early for-
>>
>> 1. Your brining a CD ROM with all the pertinent references for reading
>> material so we can put it on our laptops and bring it home to start the
>> reading assignments.
>
> I think I can have all of the "reading assignments" on either floppy or
> a CD. I think that all but the FPAC stuff is on the Knoppix_AFU CD, I
> will see how to get the FPAC stuff in the ISO so you can have it all
> there available to you.
>
>>
>> 2. Our bringing a four-comport dumb comptuer (with DOS 6.22) on it and a
>> CDROM drive and your loading FPAC on it during a private workshop for 
>> those
>> of us who want to follow along?
>>
>
> I will not promise much because I am also getting squeezed by work (as 
> usual
> they all leave this radio stuff til the end of the year and then
> wonder why I can
> not get out to do "thier little project") but I will do what I can.
> Mike Branda who
> is active on the local Linux Users Group wants me to give something on 
> Linux
> and Amateur radio, perhaps we shall have to meld the whole thing together.
>
> Do you want a DOS box or do you want a Linux box. What I know of the Linux
> FPAC now, I would not go back to DOS unless I found something really bad
> that I had not seen. We are getting ready to start migrating the DOS boxes
> here in Tampa to LInux so we can do it either way. The Linux box just is 
> so
> much more flexible and allows you to do so much more.
>
>> (Charlie and I will be someplace in the area Friday afternoon, eveing.)
>
> OK. Let us see what we can do, I think we can do something here.
>
> -- 
> Chuck Hast


Naw.. we have a bunch of DOS FPAC boxes here.. I just keep a spare DOS 
computer as replacement if needed, so w can bring a virgin DOS computer for 
you to put the LINUX stuff on... the DOS part can go away - far away 
perhaps.  Once we learn enough we can convert our switches to LINUX.

bud