[nmglug] Custom Boot Disk for School Lab

[Andrew Farnsworth]

One thought, make bootable USB thumb drives instead... this way you can
write to them.

Andy

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Jeffrey Miller
<jeffrey at strandcruisers.com>wrote:

> This seems like the classic RTFM question but...  (-:
>
> So our tech dept in our district has removed all our triple boot builds
> (Mac OSX, Vista & Edubuntu) on our Mac Minis and installed Windoze7 only.  I
> am working with Tux Typing and want to be able to have an edited word list
> for my students.  The problem is is that the tech dept doesn't fully use the
> roaming profile so in Windoze7 each user stores some of their stuff, like
> favorites, Firefox settings and Tux Typing edited word lists, in their own
> local folder.  So each user needs to have the edited word list files stored
> in their own unique folder on each machine.  So my scheme is to build a
> linux boot cd with a few Edubuntu games on it with their custom files
> already installed and configured.  Student will just boot from the disk,
> like in my old Apple IIe daze. No need to save anything, unlike in the old
> FrEdWriter daze.  And we don't want to modify the existing Mac Mini or the
> hard drive.  <:
>
> So I am thinking I could build a box with Ubuntu and add a few of the
> educational software packages.  Configure the software as I see fit,
> including custom word lists.  Then clone it with Clonezilla to CD.  Never
> done it before.  So I am wondering what I might need to pay attention to as
> I am building a boot CD without the capabilities of installing linux on the
> existing hard drive.  All the computers are Mac Minis but it would be cool
> if it would work on any intel.
>
> I had thought about editing the boot cd that one can download as an iso
> file.  But I never done that either.
>
> Any ides, thoughts and/or caveats will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peace
>
> "It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about
> education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated
> person,
> the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into
> the world of thought -- that is to be educated."
> Edith Hamilton
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