[Ubuntu-US-PA] LoCo / LUG in Washington PA area?

[JW Simpson]

I checked, because I thought too that ufw should have already been
installed.  But it was not. :-(
Neither was iptables.

And ... I was also imagining that the CD probably does have Dell
drivers.

Thank you for your input.  I'm feeling somewhat grumpy today.  :-| My
internet's been down for a couple days straight. :-(

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 17:19 -0500, Alex Gretlein wrote:
> UFW should be installed by default. If not IPTables definitely is.
> That said, there shouldn't be any ports open on a default Ubuntu
> install anyway (AFAIK), so the firewall is not that important. Then
> you can install clamAV from the repositories before using your USB
> drive. ClamAV probably won't actually be on the CD, unless it's a DVD.
> You're probably expected to use the CD via a USB CD-drive. One of the
> best investments I've ever made was in a $20 converter with USB on one
> end and connections for two sizes of IDE and two sizes of SATA on the
> other. Then you can just use whatever hardware you have laying around,
> and not have to keep USB versions of everything unless you need them
> often.
> I think UNetBootin can convert the CD to a bootable SD card, *if* the
> netbook can boot from that slot. But for installation of software or
> re-installation of the OS you would probably want to download a more
> recent image anyway. Except possibly for whatever drivers Dell stuck
> on there.
> 
> 
> Alex Gretlein
> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM, JW Simpson <john at swajime.com> wrote:
>         Well you have at least one interested person.
>         
>         We just bought a Dell mini-9.  It came with an SD slot, and an
>         Ubuntu
>         CD.  Unfortunately, the CD does not fit in the SD slot, and
>         I'm wanting
>         to install ufw or gufw from the CD before hooking it up to the
>         internet.
>         I also want to install clamAV before plugging in a USB
>         thumb-drive that
>         was used on an MS-infected machine.  I am not certain, but I
>         have reason
>         to suspect that these are available on the CD that came with
>         the
>         mini-9 ... ?
>         
>         We do have a blank 2G SD card to work with, but no CD drive.
>         
>         Is there any possibility I could get some assistance?  I'm
>         thinking it
>         would be really helpful if the installation CD could just be
>         copied to
>         the SD-card?
>         
>         
>         On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 21:38 -0500, Rick Bryant wrote:
>         > Not that I've heard of,  but I'm in Washington and would
>         love have one
>         > here if there is interest.
>         >
>         > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:11 PM, JW Simpson
>         <john at swajime.com> wrote:
>         >         Howdy,
>         >
>         >         I'm wondering if anybody here knows of a ubuntu or
>         linux group
>         >         near Washington?
>         >
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