[K12OSN] My Laptop

[Petre Scheie]

You might consider installing the Xandros Open Circulation distro on your 
laptop.  It's free, and it has IMHO the best file manager available on Linux. 
It automatically finds all the SMB (Windows) shares on your network, as well as 
all the NFS shares on your network.  It automatically detected and configured my 
SMC wireless card*, whereas Mandrake couldn't, nor could Red Hat (RH9? FC1? I 
cant recall the version). It seems pretty good about detecting USB devices. It 
will automatically repartition your disk so that it only uses available space, 
leaving, say, a Windows partition intact so you can dual-boot; or not--you can 
also just tell it to wipe the other partitions.  Seems to me installation 
required about 6 clicks.

*Be sure to run the Update after the installation so that you get the latest 
patches, etc.  My wireless card didn't work until I did this.

Petre

Liam Marshall wrote:
> I am the teacher/tech person at our school.  I have the lab set up with 
> the core1 version of LTSP.  Things have more or less stabalized.  Things 
> are working at an acceptable level, except for sound on the thin clients 
> which I have yet to get working, but I can live with that.  There are a 
> few other minor annoyances which I can also live with.
> 
> I use my laptop at my desk connected to a projector, to model/show the 
> lessons.  In order to show them exactly how it should look I connect to 
> the ltsp by hitting F12 and booting off the network, effectively making 
> my laptop a temporary thin client.
> The problem I have is that taking student work home to mark is 
> troublesome.  What I do now is boot my laptop into windows at the end of 
> the day.  I have the server also running SAMBA and have a share 
> established for the student home directories.  I connect to this share 
> and run a batch file on it that copies all the data files from their 
> home directories onto my laptop's hard drive.  then I take it home and 
> mark it.
> 
> I am now comfortable/confident enough with Linux that I would like to 
> set my laptop up to be a single boot of say Fedora Core 2 or 3.  
> Everything I do at home or school I can do in Linux.
> 
> But I want to be able to continue using the laptop to model the lessons 
> to the students through the projector.  This means I need to be able to 
> connect to the server's linux drive(s)/shares, and I need to be able to 
> dump the student's work to my laptop hard drive so I can take it home to 
> mark.
> 
> How can I connect to the server's shares while my laptop is booted up 
> through a stand-alone Linux distro?  And access my laptop hard drive, 
> and my laptop burner?
> 
> Thanks for your time and effort in response to this querry.
> 
> 
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