[K12OSN] Ubuntu thoughts...

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 18:11, David Trask wrote:
> "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?

Yes, you can boot the flash image and install over NFS
without burning any CDs.  There's also a way to do
a PXE boot that might fall into place for everyone who
already is set up for network booting.  It just always
seemed easier to burn a CD or copy the flash image than
to make the right hardware-address entry in the
dhcpd.conf file.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com