[efh] Demonstrating code in the ACTLab?

[Allucquére Rosanne Stone]

You can certainly boot the main boxen from a CD, but you'll have no 
connectivity.  An alternative way might be for Cynbe or me or Joe to 
bring a Linux box or laptop to class.  You could test the setup 
before we bring it in, then hook the video output directly into the 
computer input on that black hulk near the dimmer board.  Click -- no 
problem.

By the way, we hope to go dual boot to Linux on most ACTLab machines 
next year.  We were ready this year, but the tech staff asked us to 
slow down so they could explore the situation, particularly to find a 
way for UTIT, Microsoft-like, to control all Linux boxen remotely as 
they do now with Macs and PCs.

-Sandy


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>Quoth Brian Ledden <ledden at mail.utexas.edu>, on 2007-03-12 04:51:24 -0600:
>>  Couldn't you just use a live-cd to boot one of the other systems
>>  normally operating a different platform into a temporary linux box?
>
>...
>
>Now why didn't I think of that?  c.c  Obvious in retrospect...
>
>A few potential hazards: will booting from an alternate disk bring the
>wrath of IT down on us?  And will the latency of rebooting the
>relevant boxes interfere with other activities that might use them?
>
>It's probably possible to work around these, though, so that looks
>like the best option unless there's a convenient spare box around.
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>Many thanks.  :-)
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>>  -brian
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>    ---> Drake Wilson