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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:25:53 +0200, Geir Holmavatn staggered into the Black Sun and said: I was wondering that too. (Geir, as a quick groups.google will show, Peter doesn't seem to know what...
I don't understand what you want. There is no difficulty in running a linux o-s on a students notebook - give them a knoppix cd. But WHY? Why do you want them to boot linux? If they want to run linux they can always ssh in to a process, server, no? Or just run their process cmpletely remotely. If they want a gui they can run an X server on windows.
It seems really unclear what you are trying to accomplish, but I'll make a couple of buttumptions and see if they...
IF, otoh, you actually want them to have a small linux OS on their hard disk to boot into, again, Knoppix will fit on disk easily.
And if you just want them to use their machines as linux processors, no hard disk, then let them do an nfs boot - you can give them the boot kernel via tftp or more likely just let them run loadlin.exe on a kernel image on their disk with root set to a nfs mount. They can use a 200MB file in C:-temp as a locally mounted file system if they really want. It doesn't matter if it is ntfs or vfat underneath.
All those they have in both windows and linux. What exactly do you want?
But it is not clear what you want! I THINK you want a knoppix cd, but why do you want them to run linux at all?
Peter
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