I had a brain fart when reading this post. What would people think of building a distro library...could include documenation & stuff as well.
I am thinking just a box that could be brought to each meeting & someone could burn a distro from it....or could be used to boot a rescue distro...or image a machine or whatever. Wouldn't necessarily need a monitor or anything but could. I am thinking a small form factor box with a big hard drive to store stuff. What do people think? On 10/31/2011 9:27 AM, t...@terralogic.net wrote: > I would like to see the presentation on FOSS Accounting Software. I cannot > be there. My mother died today. Can this be taped? > > Also I was on IRC and ran into a chap who is trying to rebuild a system. It > has windows in it but he's trying to use Linux to do the rebuild. > > Someone started bitching to take this to a #windows channel and I have to say > I disagree. He wanted to use #linux and we can do this. > > Do we have rescue media? I've done this before. I've built multiboot > machines but not this century. I suggested he go read the multiboot howto > because it explains the boot process work He was off too thia. > > But the thing is we should have downloadable FDD, USB, CD & DVD media with > the proper utilities and procedures documented so that anyone can do this. > If I were challenged today to boot from something other than the HDD and > bring up a VM and then start working with the disk image and fix the boot > records and then have the VM load and boot it... then I would be challenged. > Next how about if or without the VM involved (but a VM makes sense) then > bypass the bios and just boot the partition? > > Next. If a machine can boot from ANYTHING then it can boot from ANYTHING > else which has suitable device drivers. I've needed to do this. I haven't > looked hard but I have not found procedures written up or even well > documented which tell people how to do this basic stuff. > > Here is a simple example. Suppose we want to boot a machine from the net. > We are dealing with a well meaning but inexperianced person. If we have > media the machine can boot from then it should boot. Next there should be a > simple command line Q&A script whereby the person is prompted through network > config if necessary because there sure will not be DHCP and instructions how > to set up TFTP in pretty much any hosts. Next the procedures to actually > PING the TFTP server should be in place so that the guy KNOWS if he's got it > configured properly because likely its the first time for him and he might > even have a boss yelling at him. > > When finally he gets the TFTP or WHATEVER running we should be able to check > a magic number and confirm. > > After we checksum the boot image we boot it. > > What is wrong with this? We are the experts and we should be able to easily > jump a boot from one device to another. > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
