[Sderby] Knoppix - An interesting idea

[Jak Carr]

David

Having messed around a little with remote boot pc's in the past, I
started looking at EtherBoot, PXE, PXELinux etc, then spotted this:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3&highlight=pxe

Untried, but if it works, gets around the CD problem. It looks like
people are seeing different levels of success tho...

No changing the local HDD, no worries with CD, just find out what NIC's
are in the PC's, get the relevant dsk and away... heh.

Admittedly, this is all a bit rich coming from someone that hasn't even
SEEN the lab... so apologies as applic....

;-)

Hope this is of some use.

Jak

On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:33, David Bottrill wrote:
> I've played too, very clever, a fully functional Linux system on a
> bootable CD. It's a shame the PCs at Moira don't have CD drives as this
> would be an ideal way of making the computer lab Linux compatible.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:22, Mini Mike wrote:
> > Seconded, I've only seen it for a few minutes, but I wa amazed!
> > 
> > Mike.
> > 
> > On Sunday 26 January 2003 22:09, Ashley Heath wrote:
> > > Discovered Knoppix about a week ago and have been looking further into it,
> > > for those who don't know what it is, it is a Debian based distro that runs
> > > completely from CD. It really is quite impressive, when it boots it
> > > autodetetcts and configures all your hardware and lauches straight into a
> > > fully functioning KDE system with loads of common applications pre
> > > installed and ready to run ie open office, koffice , mozilla , konqueror
> > > and many more Knoppix is ideal for introducing folk to Linux without going
> > > the whole hog and reformatting their box, gives them a chance to play with
> > > it at their leisure and get used to Linux.
> > >
> > > Knoppix is also customisable for anyone who wants to take up the challenge,
> > > there is a CD re-mastering howto on the knoppix website. Basically you can
> > > create you own custom distro that runs from CD and does whatever you need.
> > > Ideal for making rescue CD's, demo disks, custom installations etc
> > >
> > > May be a good base for your firewalling project Mike, what do you think? A
> > > complete skipper system ready to run? Or maybe a system designed for
> > > Amateur radio.
> > >
> > > http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixRemasteringHowto
> > >
> > > Knoppix can also be run from a network bootable pc and installed on a hard
> > > disk if desired.
> > >
> > > Feel a project coming on
> > > Ash
> > >
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