It’s easy to see that I like Arch.

Con un poco de paciencia puedes hacerte un instalador de Ubuntus (casi)totalmente desatendido. Conectas la red a la roseta, arrancas desde la red y a esperar, ya tienes Ubuntu instalado. Yo lo encuentro un poco frio pero bastante productivo para univer…

This post was just to show the idea, I can at a later date provide some actual configuration of PXELinux information.
Hope this brief blurb helps you. :)

My problem is that the netboot images I’ve always used just launched an installer. I know you can kickstart autoinstall, but I don’t see that step here. Has netboot changed in the last year, or am I missing something?

Signed,
Confused in Korea ;)

Vielen Dank für den Kommentar. Es hat ein sehr großes Interesse. Vielleicht in diesem Frühjahr oder Sommer, kann ich entwickeln, die gleiche Idee mit kundenspezifischen Anwendungen. Oder vielleicht ein Server mit mehreren Distributionen.

A liveCD is something altogether different. LiveCD is an actual CD, and the laptop (or PC) boots off that physical CD. It does NOT work with the Plug N’ Play Zone. The “Plug N’ Play Zone” will remove any existing software off the hard drive and replace it with Ubuntu Linux (or whatever other Linux distribution you choose). That software will be lost unless the existing drive is imaged prior to being erased. This does open up the opportunity for users to complain if something does not work when the get their original system back. Granted, if their HDD was properly imaged, they will get the identical image returned. But there are often a few who just don’t understand and then complain or complain because they think something might be wrong.

One way you can use a similar idea for teaching is to use a Linux terminal server. In this scenario it does not matter what OS is on the students laptop. They can have a virtual client installed which lets them connect (log into) the terminal server. Then they can run commands, install applications and learn about Linux. When they are done, they simply log off and go about their day (without ever having to replace any OS on their laptops!)

I posted a Media based terminal server project for Freevo and MythTV users here: http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/cre.....-home-pcs/ We could take the same principles and adapt them to your “lab” needs instead. Albeit, I’d probably provide a different project guide for that (because you would not need all the media fluff).

Let me know if you have any more questions about this.

Is it then possible to have a live cd setup so that we can provide a lab for people to come in, customized with some apps that we want setup for them so they can bring their machine, plug it in, get the live cd install, we can teach them, and they then restart and their xp image is back?

While the comment from gnu has some amusement. He has made a valid point! Have a metal handrail beside the zone so laptops can be secured. This is very important if there is no monitoring. We used your idea and it’s working nicely, but there’s always someone there to make sure nothing walks away.