Linux/Unix in the classroom

[Hewitt Tech]

That's a good point about being able to write to an NFS or Samba filesystem.
It would be pretty simple to provide student directories on a Linux
fileserver.

-Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Mullen" <moonmullen at attbi.com>
To: "GNHLUG Mailing List" <discuss at gnhlug.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 2:40 PM
Subject: RE: Linux/Unix in the classroom


On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Travis Roy wrote:

> Using that CD with stuff pre-installed and everything works at boot how
> do you learn to install a linux distrubution since you just put this in
> and boot? And what would there be left to install if it comes with
> everything you need? Also, where does it install to?

I was under the impression that we were discussing its use in an "Intro to
Unix" course; I wouldn't expect the installation from scratch of a Linux
distro to be a part of that course. I would think that the basic *nix
system structure and philosophy, some common shell commands, how to use an
editor, basic scripting, and perhaps a compile or two would be more likely
to be the topics covered (perhaps Jerry could go into more detail on this
aspect) - all of this can be done nicely using Knoppix as the platform.

As stated before, it runs the basic system in a ramdisk, and loads apps
and libraries from the CD as needed. It can use any storage available on
the host PC (including detecting and using any swap partitions it finds),
but defaults to mounting disks as read-only unless explicitly overridden.

The home dir of the default user (/home/knoppix/) is also on the ramdisk,
and one can save from there either to the floppy, to a local HD drive (if
mounted correctly), or to any storage available to the student elsewhere
on the network (samba, nfs, ftp, ssh/sftp, all included).

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