[tech] Something to do with all those USBs! (Was: Why we should not use Mint as the SOE)

James Taylor james at jtaylor.id.au
Fri Apr 11 00:21:18 WST 2014


How many GB are the drives? Could fit a few distros on a stick with
multiboot and hand them out to freshers to play with :)

[JTK]


On 11/04/2014 02:11, Sam Moore wrote:
> They have the UCC logo on them and everything!
>
> On 11/04/14 00:08, James Taylor wrote:
>> On 10/04/2014 23:18, Bob Adamson wrote:
>>> If you want a consistent+identical environment to boot to
>>> for things like the fresher welcome, what about imaging a bunch of USB
>>> sticks and booting all the machines off those? Bam, guaranteed to be up to
>>> date and consistent for all users at the event, and we can even use the
>>> windows machines.
>> I actually like this idea... Hell, you could even set up a premade
>> netboot live environment for the distros if you want to go further, with
>> a nice menu to choose which image to boot from rather than fumbling with
>> USB drives :)



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