On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:37, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > The method myself and a team of others used week before last at a > holiday camp was to take a current Knoppix Live CD, extract the > compressed loopback filesystem, and then use the standard Debian tools > to install a desktop package of our choice. We could have installed the > sugar-desktop package if we needed it, but our participants had > needs that were not met by Sugar. > > The camp was run at a state high school in Queensland, Australia. There > were many (~90) modern desktop computers in the commerce classrooms, but > we were not permitted to use the Microsoft Windows environment on each. > We had to avoid touching the hard drives. > > We set up two servers that would PXE boot the classroom computers. One > server was held in reserve in case the other failed. We used two > different methods; one was a CentOS 5.3 system booted from a RAID array, > the other was a Knoppix system booted from a USB flash drive. These > servers were configured to respond to the PXE boot requests from the > classroom computers, provide a kernel over TFTP, then provide the > filesystem over NFS. > > The remastered filesystem contained everything we thought our > participants would need. Several times during the week we modified this > filesystem to add further features. > > Booting time was about one minute, if I recall correctly. > > I've not done the same with Sugar yet, but it should be quite possible. > > You might like to look at LTSP and the "server" packages.
I think I have heard that Trisquel is already setup for this environment? Regards, Tomeu -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel