Topher has recruited me to give the next UUG meeting. There are a bunch of related ideas that I'd be happy to talk about, so I would like to have some feedback from the list about what would be the most interesting and useful.
CDs and DVDs are so 1990s. Who in their right mind would spin a thin piece of plastic at 26000 RPM? Not only are optical disks loud, slow, and inefficient, but damaged disks can even explode (see Mythbusters episode 2 for more details). The only time most Linux users use an optical disk is when installing their system or importing a DVD, but many computers (like netbooks) don't even have optical drives. Anyway, there's a lot more to booting and installation than burning a CD. Here are a couple of topics that we could cover: - making a bootable USB flash drive - using a USB flash drive as a rescue disk (I always have one in my wallet) - loading a specific kernel or install image onto a thumb drive - installing by booting from the network (PXE Boot) - setting up a diskless Linux client to boot from the network - using a Kickstart for automated installation with custom scripts - installing a virtual machine with PXE Is there anything in this list that you would love to learn about? Do any of these topics seem particularly boring? Is there anything you would like to add to the list? There are a ton of different directions I could go with this, and I want to make sure that I focus on what you find interesting. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
