On Saturday, March 2 2002 the KPLUG members gathered at the Bremerton Library to hold an all day installfest. Flyers were passed out and announcements were made, but only club members showed up.

We had a small collection of machines including several laptops of varying levels of power. Dennis brought along some new old hardware for us to try our hand at, and as with the last KPLUG InstallFest that I attended we ran into numerous hardware problems.

We successfully installed RedHat 7.2 on Dennis's new server box, but rand into a variety of problems from a flaky CDROM drive to a failing harddrive (it only started to fail after the install though). We suspect that our friends from Moses Lake sabotaged our floppies because we had a bunch of trouble making boot disks that would work. One laptop would boot the QNX network demo disk I brought along, but would fail on a RedHat 7.2 boot disk that worked fine in other machines.

We almost successfully completed a network install of RedHat 7.2 on Dennis's laptop, but it ran out of harddrive space. This was after an hour or so trying to figure out why the laptop could be pinged but wasn't making connections to the webserver running on Kevin's box. It ended up being a bad network cable -- Lesson of the InstallFest A ping alone doesn't guarantee a good connection

Kevin brought along an 8 port 10/100 switch so we could handle both speeds of network cards present, although having a switch did put a crimp in my demo of the Ethereal network sniffer (running on a P100 with a 640x480 display no less).

Overall I was disappointed with the turnout, with no non-members lugging their hardware in, but it was a good time and I got to know the other KPLUG members better.