[XCSSA] November Meeting

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:40:53 -0400

Hummm... what about incorporating installs to usb thumdrive and using
grub/Xen to boot/run your OS of choice off of the thumbdrive (given
32GB $270 thumbdrives are available)
Say, perhaps some of the following listed below?

CRaig

mac : http://nothickmanuals.info/doku.php?id=minivmac
Emulation for amiga : http://uae.coresystems.de/
solaris : http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=14396&tstart=0
Freebsd : http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2

On 10/24/06, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
> Hey John..
>
> If I DO do it (would like to do it on Fedora Core 6), then I'll probably demo
> a pre-installed Xen domain (each domain above the domain-0 hypervisor
> instance), then I will probably show a fresh install of something like Ubuntu
> or maybe another install of something going into a third OS instance.. we'll
> see.. I only have 512MB.. Maybe I should get some mo RAM! hehe..
>
> Tweeks
>
> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 03:47, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> > I don't have the message handy, but I believe there was indication of
> > a presentation on Xen for November, yes?
> >
> > If so, I'd like to add my endorsement of this topic.  I'm just now
> > starting to experiment with Xen (on NetBSD 4.0 Beta, of course) and
> > am primarily interested in setup issues, rather than "kewl schtuff
> > j00 can do".
> >
> > In general, its definitely relevant to issues in my UNIX I class, so
> > expect a crowd...
> >
> > (Beyond setup, I'm just interested in having ready access to
> > a reference installation of student machines, without the headache
> > of multi-booting.  I.e. NetBSD Dom0 and one or more linux DomUs.
> > And no, I don't plan to do it the other way around.)
> >
> >
> > John D. Baker                            NetBSD     Darwin/MacOS X
> > http://mylinuxisp(dot)com/(tilde)jdbaker/     OpenBSD            FreeBSD
> > BSD.  It just sits there and _works_.
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