Thanks for the heads up Dan.
Knowing what not to try is a big time saver.
I'll explore some other alternatives like creating
an old fashioned terminal server.
If anyone else has experience with teaching
C with Macs but avoiding X-code feel welcome to
mail me off-list (or on if relevant to share).
cheers,
Andy
On 02 September 2011 at 09:22 Dan S <danstowell+pured...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm too busy to be detailed, so sorry, but: newish mac machines plus
> live USB boot of puredyne has been a total pain for me recently.
> "Faultless"? No. We're trying to improve this but we mostly don't use
> macs so we can't prioritise it at all.
>
> Dan
>
>
> 2011/9/2 Andy Farnell <padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk>:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Wondering if anyone can tell me the exact situation regarding PureDyne
> > on iOS at the moment, as the archives and my own experiences are
> > patchy, obsolete info in this rapidly changing area.
> >
> > Is it possible, to make a faultless and easily used live C development
> > environment using PureDyne?
> >
> > I have 20 students all with MacOS Snow Leopard and need to create
> > USB keys for a C programming course. There is no way they are going
> > to install and register a 1GB X-Code "developer pack" to do a few first
> > semester C exercises. So I need a simple bootable stick I can issue.
> >
> > It needs a persistent live mount so I can apt-get gcc and a bunch
> > of libraries like portaudio, jack, SDl and so on, and also so that
> > the students can save their work between sessions.
> >
> > Thoughts greatly appreciated,
> > thanks & best 2 all,
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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