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[Alan Pope <alan@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/8/21 Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> I'm not sure whether there's a big benefit in having the stick a live
> mirror server, unless you'd want to use it for a dedicated machine.

It was really to get the stick up and running quickly. Any old
hardware (that can boot off USB) will do.

> I
> cary a copy of the latest LTS and latest Ubuntu binary mirrors with me
> on my laptop (at this stage, hardy, intrepid and jaunty). When I go to a
> school I copy/update their archives from my laptop, and then they're
> more or less fine for Ubuntu packages without having an Internet connection.
>

What about those people who don't have a knight in shining armour
carrying a laptop?

> I know a live disk that you can boot over the network is quite in
> demand, there's been lots of requests from LTSP and Edubuntu users for
> something like that that works out of the box. It would be nice to be
> able to netboot and then be able to use a live image and then install
> from there. It's something that most users should be able to do with a
> bit of good documentation, assuming they already have the packages.
> Isn't it something that could perhaps be fixed with documentation?
>

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDNetboot is that not sufficient?

Cheers,
Al.