Tim Newsham wrote:
How about booting linux diskless? Then you dont have to touch the current install at all (other than putting a different boot loader on it). Grub has netboot capabilities, does linux support it? (My bet is yes).
It is a tri-boot lab. We use a grub to netboot from our K12LTSP server. We use grub to boot to windows for foreign language classes. We use grub to boot to Debian for hands-on, DIY classes.
We have done the work. The lab is ghosted. If anyone has an OSS solution or suggestion that can do what ghost has done, we are eager to implement it. For now, we are eternally grateful to the great folks of Symantec (and Bill) who have developed and delivered that which we can still only talk about.
We meet at McKinley on the weekends. Just to reiterate- this is a lab that we, us, you and I, members of our Open Source Community as embodied in HOSEF, your LUG in action, gave to our DOE. It is used by students and teachers. It is the ultimate example of how nicely the OSS community plays. We donate and support computers that, in this case, even benefit our competition.
If someone in our community wants to make a difference there, we could use and OSS alternative to Ghost, and we would love to run Rosetta Stone, the app that requires Windows, on Linux, and Wine has failed us thus far.
--scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]
