[BozemanLUG] BozemanLUG Feb. Meeting

[David Eder]

Let's do a thumb drive install fest.

Here's what it looks like:

1) Everybody bring a thumb drive that's at least 4GB.
2) If you have a favorite distro, bring the install media.  I'm hoping
Scott will have a Fedora or CentOS DVD or net install.
3) Scott will disable the HDD in the host box BIOS. Can we do this Scott?
4) We boot the DVD/CD installer with the thumb drive inserted and install
the distro.
5) We remove the DVD, re-enable the HDD and boot the thumb drive.
6) We customize (perhaps auto-login).
7) We show our friends.

I've done this for a couple version of Fedora.  It seems to work pretty
well.  Properly tuned you can go from BIOS to usable desktop in about 15
seconds.

If we can disable the HDD, we could also use Virtual box and give it raw
access to the thumb drive.  That works pretty well for installation as
well.

This is different from the normal thumb drive images in a couple of ways.

1) It is not compressed.
2) Changes are not written to a log based overlay file system.  Thus, when
you delete something, you actually get your space back.



David.


> Greetings,
>
> The regularly scheduled BozemanLUG meeting is this Thursday... Feb.
> 23rd... at the usual time and place.
>
> I don't have a specific presentation scheduled.  Does anyone have any
> suggestions?
>
> I've been learning quite a bit about various topics and there are a few
> things I could cover.  Would anyone be interested in the following topic?
>
> How to easily download videos from YouTube in any of the formats they have
> (I prefer webm)
>
> Anyone else have a topic they might be interested in talking about?
>
> TYL,
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