Re: Solution for school lab

2011-10-31 Thread Fbsd8
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: I use a solution that is: 1) a large Freebsd box (phenon X4,8Gb of memory, 1TB disk) 2) OS=Freebsd 8.2 with all gnome2.32 installed 3) Virtualbox 10.x installed in FreeBSD 4) NT 2003 server with unlimited number of users on rdp (the iso is in internet or torrent).

Re: Solution for school lab just a thought

2011-10-31 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
You should look into the Freebsd port qjail. At our school lab all the pcs have ms/windows on the hard drive with the putty client installed. Students use putty to get logged into a jail on a single Freebsd system. Each student can practice installing ports, packages, or one of the

Re: Solution for school lab just a thought

2011-10-31 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 31 October 2011 10:56:44 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: You should look into the Freebsd port qjail. At our school lab all the pcs have ms/windows on the hard drive with the putty client installed. Students use putty to get logged into a jail on a single Freebsd system. Each

Re: Solution for school lab just a thought

2011-10-31 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. Sergio. Would you mind to contact me offline (maybe some people in the list won't be interested) I help communities and non profit (very poor) organizations here and would like to know more about your schema and results. Here also we get donattions of hardware. The old 386 and

[OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Peter
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

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Rares Aioanei
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

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Blackman
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

Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
I use a solution that is: 1) a large Freebsd box (phenon X4,8Gb of memory, 1TB disk) 2) OS=Freebsd 8.2 with all gnome2.32 installed 3) Virtualbox 10.x installed in FreeBSD 4) NT 2003 server with unlimited number of users on rdp (the iso is in internet or torrent). 5) internet connection Here this

Re: Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: I use a solution that is: 1) a large Freebsd box (phenon X4,8Gb of memory, 1TB disk) 2) OS=Freebsd 8.2 with all gnome2.32 installed 3) Virtualbox 10.x installed in FreeBSD 4) NT 2003 server with unlimited number of users on rdp (the iso is

Re: Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Consider installing VMWare ESXi and instances of whatever operating system you like. We have template operating systems we copy to new/replacement instances. You can export your disks to the instances but with all things you gain some, you loose some. with the small machine (phenon 4,

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Chris Whitehouse
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