[OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab
Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system images to the initial state. I do not want we to turn into Windows only lab.I was thinking in for some Citrix solutions but I wonder if there is other way we can accomplish this task. Thanks in advance. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:01:20 +0200 Peter pe...@aboutsupport.com wrote: Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system images to the initial state. I do not want we to turn into Windows only lab.I was thinking in for some Citrix solutions but I wonder if there is other way we can accomplish this task. Thanks in advance. Peter For 1. you can always setup triple-boot machines, for 2. you can use Clonezilla, for instance. -- Rares Aioanei ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab
On 30 Oct 2011, at 10:01, Peter wrote: Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system images to the initial state. Diskless booting perhaps, along the lines of this project at ICL in London. http://www.ukuug.org/newsletter/19.2/#hpc_f_andy_ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab
On 30/10/2011 10:01, Peter wrote: Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system images to the initial state. 1) A very robust if slightly more expensive way is a separate disk for each OS. Many more recent (last 3 or 4 years?) motherboards have an option during POST to choose a boot device so you don't need to go into the BIOS setup screens. This system has the advantage that OS's are completely separate from each other. 2) Clonezilla. (Not very relevant aside... Back in the day of pentium 1's and 2 dual channel IDE controllers I solved this same problem with 3 hard disks, each set to be master, on a home made IDE cable with an extra connector so the three disks were plugged into the primary controller, and a 3 position rotary switch so only one disk would power up at a time. It took a bit of experimentation to find three disks that could coexist but it worked really well as long as one didn't switch over while the machine was on. I think I had FreeBSD, Windows and Netware). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
