[aklug] Re: Friday Night Linux goings on

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:
> 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. =A0I
>> think his hands were having a hard time keeping up with his mind :-)
That was me.
>>
>> Figured out how to boot Greg Madden's Debian mirror over VBox. Greg was
>> there to celebrate the Debian freeze.
Wow i missed it.
>>
>> 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=3D81036
>>
>> 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.
I tried with BackTrack USB and it worked.
>
> 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 USB=
2 not
> so much.
>
> USB3 sounds promising.
Yup it does with faster speeds and better performance.
>
> --
> Peace,
>
> Greg
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Received on Fri Aug 13 13:07:11 2010