On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:06:23PM -0700, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > Has anyone messed with BKO from boot.kernel.org? I stumbled upon it today > and it looks neat. You can start an installer for > Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/CentOS/Red Hat straight from the Internet. You can also > pull up live versions of Debian/Ubuntu/DSL/Fedora/Knoppix/FreeDos or use any > one of the several system tools available all in about 2 MB plus an HTTP > connection to the Internet.
A while ago, I looked into using something very much like BKO. My problem is that I don't really use that many different distributions. When I was trying to come up with a list of things to put on my bootable thumb drive, all I needed was one installer and memtest86. PXE Knife, which is used in BKO, looks really cool. My only problem is that I'm not sure what other tools I need. The hard drive utilities category (with 10 different manufactur-specific tools) seems pretty useless. The memory testing category has four tools (do I really need more than one?). I'd honestly love to put any useful tools on my thumb drive, but I'm not sure what else I would really use. > I was going to try to build a super swiss army USB soon, I might change my > strategy after seeing BKO. This might be also useful for Install Fests. We > could set-up our own BKO server on phantom which could possibly use some of > the on-campus mirrors for Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu/etc for the heavy lifting and > need only one small loader on media (CD or USB or PXE server for no media at > all) to install any Linux OS. No need having lots of CDs. My opinion for a while has been that the Install Fests are less helpful than they used to be. I think it would be better to help with post-installation problems and configuration. Installation has gotten really easy, but people still need help with configuration and workarounds. -- 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
