[aklug] Re: Friday Night Linux goings on

On Saturday 07 August 2010 15:42:27 Jim Gribbin wrote:
> Not many people showed up. Schools network seems to be turned off for
> the Summer still, making do w/ Clearwire - not great, but workable.
>
> Had some 11 year old kid there for a while. Kid has apparently been
> doing stuff with computers since he was 4. Mom didn't really understand
> what he was talking about any more, thought maybe we would. Kid had an
> Apple laptop, but did not refer to the OS as Apple or OSx, referred to
> it as BSD. He also had all the anti-Microsoft propaganda down pat. Kid
> probably new as much about Linux as any of us and was a lot faster. I
> think his hands were having a hard time keeping up with his mind :-)
>
> Figured out how to boot Greg Madden's Debian mirror over VBox. Greg was
> there to celebrate the Debian freeze.
>
> VBox isn't really intended to boot over USB, but it can be made to do
> so. Found some step-by-step on how to do it here:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81036
>
> Worked pretty well, but they neglected to mention one thing. The
> instruction to run the command to create the mount point,
> VBoxManage internal ..., neglects to take one thing into account. It
> can't create a file (the mount point) in a sub-directory that doesn't
> exist. Had to run 'mkdir ~/mnt' first.

Thanks Jim for the help. As it turns out my new motherboard does boot USB :-),
thanks for that tip also..

A full Debian install/apache web server setup + a partial Debian mirror,
i386,AMD64, on a 1TB pocket sized external USB disk.

The mirror stuff for local installs works fine, doing work stuff over USB2 not
so much.

USB3 sounds promising.

-- 
Peace,
Greg
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