On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:49:23AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > Give them a bootable live CD with all the tools pre-installed and
> > pre-configured:
> > 
> >   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo
> > 
> > The above tool makes it really trivial to do.
> 
> This is kind of a SPAM, I can't surrender to it!
> 
> Some goes ..., oh no sorry, I have to fight, ... far better you can
> obtain in the .deb world with one of the following two tools:
> - Debian Live: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/
> - Ubuntu Customization Kit: http://uck.sourceforge.net/

I hope that didn't come across the wrong way.  There are of course
also excellent Debian-based tools, I just didn't until now know which
were the best ones.  In any case, it sounds like giving the students a
custom live CD is going to be better than spending a whole first
lesson getting them to install and configure the required software.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat