[nmglug] Custom Boot Disk for School Lab

[Jeffrey Miller]

Thanks.  I had thought of that option.  In fact Mac offers a netboot  
option simply by holding down the "N" key on startup.  However, I am  
not allowed to put anything on the network nor am I allowed to access  
the Mac Server.  ):  Hence the boot disk option.  Jump drives are an  
option but are more costly then a CD.

Peace

On Aug 24, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Aaron Birenboim wrote:

> On 08/23/2011 07:15 PM, Jeffrey Miller wrote:
>> This seems like the classic RTFM question but...  (-:
>
> I think that the standard solution to such a problem would be
> to boot those minis over the network.
> Either enable a PXE boot option in the BIOS (or Mac version of a  
> Bios),
> or set up mini bootstrap disks as described below.
>
> There are standard LINUX distros for running a lab from a single
> server, with many thin clients.  PXE boot an image from the server,
> AND have user accounts which store student profiles, retrievable
> from any client in the lab.
>
> If you are running wireless, there are mini wifi-PXE boot images.
> These are actually mini LINUX distros that install drivers for the
> WiFi, then download the PXE boot images (TFTP?) from the server
> and then boot the "real" LINUX kernel.
>
> Hopefully somebody is reading this list who is familiar with these
> thin-client oriented distros.
>
>             aaron
>
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