That's a good point about being able to write to an NFS or Samba filesystem. It would be pretty simple to provide student directories on a Linux fileserver.
-Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Mullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GNHLUG Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 2:40 PM Subject: RE: Linux/Unix in the classroom On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Travis Roy wrote: > Using that CD with stuff pre-installed and everything works at boot how > do you learn to install a linux distrubution since you just put this in > and boot? And what would there be left to install if it comes with > everything you need? Also, where does it install to? I was under the impression that we were discussing its use in an "Intro to Unix" course; I wouldn't expect the installation from scratch of a Linux distro to be a part of that course. I would think that the basic *nix system structure and philosophy, some common shell commands, how to use an editor, basic scripting, and perhaps a compile or two would be more likely to be the topics covered (perhaps Jerry could go into more detail on this aspect) - all of this can be done nicely using Knoppix as the platform. As stated before, it runs the basic system in a ramdisk, and loads apps and libraries from the CD as needed. It can use any storage available on the host PC (including detecting and using any swap partitions it finds), but defaults to mounting disks as read-only unless explicitly overridden. The home dir of the default user (/home/knoppix/) is also on the ramdisk, and one can save from there either to the floppy, to a local HD drive (if mounted correctly), or to any storage available to the student elsewhere on the network (samba, nfs, ftp, ssh/sftp, all included). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 8.2 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss