[K12OSN] Ubuntu thoughts...

David Trask dtrask at vcsvikings.org
Tue Sep 13 23:11:25 UTC 2005


"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 10:26 AM +0000 wrote:
>Yet another possibility is to use a USB flash drive to boot with the
>diskboot.img in the 1st CD's /images directory.  Most machines will
>boot from USB these days. A cheap way to do that is to find a compact
>flash or SD card from a camera that is too small to used anymore (8 megs
>is plenty) and use it with a USB adapter that doesn't have to be
>dedicated to the job.  Just make a loopback mount of the iso image
>on the machine that holds it so you can dd the file to the device,
>plug it in the machine you want to load and reboot.
 Couldn't you also use "linux askmethod" with this idea?

David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100




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