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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu training for newbies

 

On 26/04/10 08:43, Rhia Knowles wrote:

Or LTSP on the adult ed areas PCs. Wont touch their HDDs, all sessions
stored on the server machine you bring in (is that doable? or maybe give
em a networked share to store their work on/flashpens), Just means
ensuring all the PCs they provide have bootroms.


LTSP will boot from a CD/Floppy/USB stick when used with something like Etherboot (or is it gPXE now?). Although saying that, a fair few machines made in the past 3 or 4 years (and possibly longer on some models) will most probably support network booting.

Rob

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