[K12OSN] OT - from ISO to hard disk

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Fri Aug 6 13:36:54 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 08:27, Petre Scheie wrote:
> This O'Reilly article is about how to build your own custom Knoppix CD.  
> One of the steps it covers is copying the Knoppix CD to the hard disk 
> (on its own partition) and then adjusting LILO or grub to allow you to 
> boot from that partition.  It's not too difficult, good article.
> 
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/11/20/knoppix.html

Someone could bring this back on-topic by coming up with a modification
to the iso that would make it start X -query ltsp automatically
so it would work to boot laptops or other hardware that won't
network boot as a thin client.

Or, for faster desktops, make it authenticate to your central system,
NFS mount your home directory and run as a fat client with a
local desktop and perhaps some icons to run certain apps on an
application server elsewhere.   Some DNS naming conventions should
be all it takes to make this fairly generic.

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   Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com






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