I think you would avoid using a distro that tried to boot off an NT or XP
system. AFAIK, NTFS support in Linux is experimental. I think it works well
enough that you can for example, change the system password information, but
anything more extensive could lead to problems.
-Alex
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Hewitt Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jerry, is there a reason why you and the other instructors couldn't
use Knoppix to teach your courses? You need to be able to boot off the
CD-ROM but once the system is booted, the system is faster to some
extent because
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Hewitt Tech wrote:
Dang! I wish I had seen your response before I posted my simplistic answer.
;^) Ok, I'll second the recommendation. You would probably also want to
caution the students to avoid mounting the system's hard drive or rather
explain how to mount the drive
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Travis Roy wrote:
Jerry, is there a reason why you and the other instructors
couldn't use Knoppix to teach your courses?
One nice thing about Knoppix is that the distro has
practically everything you could want on the CD.
Learning how to install from scratch?
Learning how to install from scratch? Learning how to
install software
packages from source or from rpm/deb/tgz packages?
Yup. Included is dpkg, apt, kdevelop, gcc 2.95 *and* 3.2, and
enough devel packages to compile any apps you'd be likely to
attempt in an intro class.
Using that
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Travis Roy wrote:
Using that CD with stuff pre-installed and everything works at boot how
do you learn to install a linux distrubution since you just put this in
and boot? And what would there be left to install if it comes with
everything you need? Also, where does it
I was under the impression that we were discussing its use in
an Intro to Unix course; I wouldn't expect the installation
from scratch of a Linux distro to be a part of that course. I
would think that the basic *nix system structure and
philosophy, some common shell commands, how to use
That's a good point about being able to write to an NFS or Samba filesystem.
It would be pretty simple to provide student directories on a Linux
fileserver.
-Alex
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