-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tyler,
sorry, I can't help you according to Intel-MACs. We only used the Notebooks provided by our university computing center. So we only had to deal with three different hardware-types. Our first idea was to use Live-DVDs and create one broad LiveDVD for all workshops or an individual LiveDVD-Image for each workshop. This wasn't practical, because it would have been necessary to burn a big bunchof DVDs. The other problem we had to deal with was, that one type of notebooks we used were IBM tablet-PCs - without any DVD-drive. So it came out that the best solution might be to configure a big Server to work as an tftp-boot machine and boot all the Workshop-Images via PXE. It was very impressive how good it worked. We used a custom PXE-boot prompt where the participants were asked to choose there Workshop and the chosen individual Workshop-image booted via Net. One very good side effect was that it was possible to provide the individual workshop-images days before the conference to the workshop leaders as iso-Image. So they had the possibility to check if the Image works exactly as expected. Updating and building a new image took about half an hour. Of course you need a good network as requirement. Our Server just had 1GBit-Port available. The Notebooks were connected via 100MBit. It was o.k. to boot 20 Notebooks parallel - this was enough for our maximum of two parallel workshops. The boot of all systems took about 5 min (not the best you can get but o.k.). After the boot the network traffic wasn't a problem. Another side-effect was that we were able to have a Internet-Cafe also using PXE-boot. The visitors could use the "normal" prepared @-Cafe-Image or boot one of the Workshop-Images to have a closer look after they participated at a workshop, ... For future conferences I'd recommend the following equipment: - - 1 workshop-server, able to spit 10 GBit - - each workshop room connected with 1GBit (up to ~5 parallel workshops possible) - - each notebook connected with 100MBit (up to 20 notebooks/workshop possible) Very nice scenario - I'd like to see this working. Marco P.S. of course the best side effect was, that we didn't have to install anything on the notebooks. We wanted to have a M$-free conference. And our university computing centre told us not to modify the Windows-Installations on the notebooks :-P By the way also the session-notebooks were only equipped with OS-Software (Ubuntu/OpenOffice/...) and the speakers could handle that. The FOSSGIS 2008 was definitely free as Freibier in Freiburg ;-) Especially if you keep that participating the conference is for free (you have to register - about 500 did) only the workshops cost about 80EUR each. Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) schrieb: > On 9-Oct-08, at 12:04 AM, Marco Lechner wrote: > >> At the german language conference "FOSSGIS" in April we used >> live-images to provide all the workshop-notebooks using PXE-boot with >> individual liveimages booting at the beginning of a workshop. > > > Marco, > Slightly off-topic, but I'm curious if (and how) you provided PXE-boot > for Intel-based Macs, since they don't PXE. Do you know if anyone did > it? I've heard of people using Slax or systemrescuedisk to help get the > net boot process running, but I haven't tried it yet. > > Tyler > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj5sPIACgkQRTmqCdK7E6pAogCg0ZLQ+rHRd8cgmOs3x+oOEmAH YQ8AoNz3Ba0+nHWnxewgbeEgzAPgn2JT =Sdpr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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