On Nov 20, 2017, at 10:51 PM, Frank Scheiner <frank.schei...@web.de> wrote:

> Well, to be on the safe side, I think you need to use the latest versions of 
> ofpath and ofpathname, hence running Debian Sid could be the easiest way to 
> make sure this is the case.

As both ofpath and ofpathname are shell scripts, would it be possible to just 
install Sid on one of the machines and copy the scripts to each of the other 
machines?

Mostly all of these machines are currently running Jessie, and it would be a 
lot of work to upgrade each to Sid, run the experiments, then downgrade back to 
Jessie.

Alternatively, could we make a Sid live (or rescue mode installer) CD that I 
could boot to run the experiments?

On a third hand, all of these machines have a Firewire port that they can boot 
from.  Can I install Sid on a single Firewire external drive and boot each 
machine in turn from it…  It would have to be two Firewire drives, one for the 
G4 machines, and the other for the G5s.  Would that work?

Rick


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