Saving from a CD boot: flash drives should work. A kludgey way if you have internet and a browser is the email files to yourself. Andy
Laura Creighton wrote: >In a message of Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:05:20 EDT, "Paul D. Fernhout" writes: > > >>I previously wrote: >> >> >>>Then you would have a custom Python which would be useful for wandering >>> >>> >>>faculty (assuming the admins let you reboot the machine, and it was >>>configured to allowing booting from removable media). >>> >>> >>I just noticed this: >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonCd >>"Welcome to your Python CD! This is a bootable CD based on [Debian >>GNU/Linux and KNOPPIX. The special thing about it is that it has lots of >>Python stuff!" >> >>Anyone used it? >> >> > >I didn't even know about it. Thanks. > > > >>I'm curious: is it even practical to expect to walk into most modern >>educational computer lab in a typical school and expect to be able to >>reboot all the computers to run from your own Python CD? Do people's >>school computer labs typically allow a boot from removable media? >> >> > >Around here all student machines get completely wiped every month >(sometimes every week) without fail. Otherwise they are packed >with viruses, porn, and other junk. So bring-your-own distribution >is the way to go. The only tricky thing is making sure that the >students -- who want to save their own work on a CD -- actually >do this properly. > ><snip> > > > >>--Paul Fernhout >> >> > >Laura >_______________________________________________ >Edu-sig mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > -- Andrew N. Harrington Computer Science Department Undergraduate Program Director Loyola University Chicago http://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh 512B Lewis Towers (office) Office Phone: 312-915-7982 Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416 Dept. Fax: 312-915-7998 820 North Michigan Avenue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chicago, Illinois 60611 _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
