On 11/14/06, Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu> wrote:

Sounds good! Thanks--I'll check it out.

It's nice to know that PLUG has such smart & helpful people!

-mj-

David Bendit wrote:

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> On Nov 13, 2006, at 11:39 PM, Mark Jarvis wrote:
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>>Can anyone point me to a distro & instructions for creating a true
>>flash
>>drive installation, preferably on a 1GB or smaller flash drive? I
>>would
>>like to use this in a classroom situation, so even a flash drive
>>installation that only worked on one machine would be useful.
>
>
> I've not tried this, but it seems simple enough:
> http://feraga.com/project/deb2flash
>
> Before you even bother with this, though, ensure that the computers
> you plan to use this on can even boot from USB drives. Most classroom
> computers that I've seen don't have the capacity. In that case, you
> might be able to get away with the distro installed on the USB drive,
> and a bootloader on a floppy/CD.
>
> Also, if you're looking for a more hands-on approach, you might want
> to check out http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179 . As
> an added benefit, that guide includes encryption of most of the system.
>
> - -David
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