Hi Joseph, I have tried the CD you recommended and am very impressed!
Later this year I am planning to get approximately 40 schools in Central Queensland together to experience CyberSTEM ( http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/online.html ) via the Access Grid. We are guaranteed media coverage as this is an extension of recent work done in the region and ABC Wide-Bay Radio are familiar with our projects. Until now I have faced numerous problems which I believe the Knoppix CD will solve. None of the school's computers effectively needs changing since they can boot and run from the CD. (MAJOR problem overcome as many are loathe to load new software.) However the Certificate provided with the Knoppix CD does not allow me to connect to the Asia-Pacific Access Grid Venue Server. If I import my own certificate from floppy disk I can enter happily enough but I am now thinking of 40 schools and should they use the existing CD I would have to relay CyberSTEM via a non-local venue server. (i.e. they could only currently see us if we served via the USA ANL venue server) Do you know if it is possible for us to obtain/create a bootable CD that we could distribute to schools in our region to allow them to "boot up" and "join in" online collaborations we want to feed via the Asia-Pacific Venue Server (in the Institutional_Lobby/NANO room). Is it preferred that the schools apply for certificates that they too could load from floppy for use with the Knoppix CD? Or am I dumb and it currently does work? (I just noticed you are at usyd) Sincerely, Duncan Joseph wrote: > Hi > > An iso of a remastered knoppix is now available to download on this page > : http://people.vislab.usyd.edu.au/~joseph/index.html . > > It uses chrony for the time aspects and is customized for AccessGrid : > an anonymous certificate is installed by default and a quick launcher > for AccessGrid is present. > > Currently, all the images are the ones of knoppix, but it could be > easily changed if never someone wanted to. > > Just boot on the cd and it should be working. However, depending of > your specific hardware, some troubles may appear. Check : > www.knoppix.net for more information and especially > http://download.linuxtag.org/knoppix/knoppix-cheatcodes.txt for > cheatcodes usable at boot time. > > Cheers, > Joseph > > -- ************************************************************ Duncan Waddell (BSc) Principal Scientific Officer Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis The University of Queensland. St. Lucia. Qld. 4072 Telephone: +61-7-3365-4216 Facsimile: +61-7-3365-1775 WWW: http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/nanohome.html ************************************************************ Any opinion expressed is that of the writer, and not necessarily that of CMM or of the University. ************************************************************
