[Sderby] Meetings and hard drives

[David Bottrill]

I downloaded a CDROM based distribution called Knoppix, this is a
bootable CD that auto-detects most hardware & boots into KDE3, if I
remember correctly it is based on Debian woody.

It uses a compressed loopback filesystem on CD that it mounts into a
RAMDISK root partition it even has openoffice 1 and Mozilla 1 installed.

It will use a swap partition if it can find one on a hard disk if not it
goes without.

It is ideal for demoing Linux as it makes no changes to the hard disk in
the PC.

David


On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 01:07, Dominic Knight wrote:
> On Thursday 29 August 2002 22:11, Clive Jones wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 Aug 2002 9:06 am, Dominic Knight wrote:
> > > We will be setting these machines up as dual boot so will have to spend
> > > some time with both this and partitioning for those who want to come
> > > along and learn about these subjects.
> >
> > Have you considered LTSP?  You could set one dual boot machine as the
> > server, then have all the other machines as clients by booting them off a
> > floppy or cdr.  Just a thought,
> >
> > C.
> >
> No but I will certainly look into it. One of the things I would like to do 
> though is set up a number of differing systems Debian based vs rpm based and 
> linuxconf vs yast etc. LTSP would be good as an extension to this as well as 
> maybe a BYO type, any more ideas from anyone? It should make a really good 
> collection  of demo machines,  what we need as well  is people to demo things 
> to ;)
> 
> Dom
> 
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