On 18/09/2007, Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:42:26AM +1200, Angus McMorland wrote: > > On 15/09/2007, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > First off, use a swap partition. > > > > I can't touch the HDs of these machines - they're used for teaching by > > day. That's one of the benefits of the live CD approach in this case. > > I found that a cheap USB HD works well in such a scenario. OK, it > works fine until your $29 4G drive starts getting flaky and the people > who sold you the item don't have a replacement so you settle for a > flash drive, which works for regular data, but not as a swap > partition. > > So if you could spend a bit more than $29, you could carry your swap > partition around with you and maybe even have some space left to store > some of your files more frequently used files.
That certainly sounds like a good plan for a small number of computers, thanks. I'm running a whole lab with of a bunch of identical CDs, and 15*$30 = $450, which is more than I care to spend at the moment. To everyone, I have successfully created a 686 flavoured GD, which is now working beautifully. Thanks for all your suggestions. It might be a good idea to make a bit clearer on the wiki what is the implication of the 486 default flavour for use on modern machines - I imagine I'm not the only one it's surprised. Is the wiki for anyone to edit? If so, I can happily do this myself. To solve the problem of files I needed often (but might want to change from time to time) I made sure the CD included ssh, then just scp in a launcher script from a server machine, and use that launcher script to pull in everything else I need. Saving output files is also done by scp. Thanks to developers of live-helper - it's a great tool. Angus. -- AJC McMorland, PhD Student Physiology, University of Auckland _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
