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
it's mostly memory resident. Students could save their work to the floppy
driv
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 read-only to prevent any "accidents".
-Alex
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
- Original M
> 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 software
packages f
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 09:30:54 -0500
"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 b
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 dri
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 fro
> > 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.
Usi
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
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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