May Meeting - New Format

[Chuck Frain]

The idea behind the image is more for the presenters. During the
UbuntuMD presentations we want to provide a consistent interface for
those attending.

What I will be doing is creating an image using the Ubuntu Live USB
creator tool which is installed by default. Then using that USB drive we
use that during the presentations. It may be that we simply load up the
OOo presentation on using that drive. It may be that there is a demo
associated with the presentation and that is also done with the LiveUSB
disk. 

By providing the image to the presenters, they have same base to start
from. Presenters can grab it and build their presentation in the same
environment they will be presenting on thus (hopefully) ensuring it
works for them on presentation day and for the attendees. Changes to the
environment for their presentation are more easily tracked so if you
need to install packages foo and bar to get your software working it is
easily noted.

As we are providing the image to the presenters there's not additional
overhead to provide it to the attendees should they desire it.  

I hope this clarifies the issue for you Jim. We're not reinventing
anything, just setting it up in a manner that will make our
presentations consistent for the audience.
 
Chuck


On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:

> How is this any different than building a distro on a disk? A thumb 
> drive is just a disk. You create a label with fdisk, partition it, and 
> install normally.
> 
> OK, don't tell me you are going to use one of those icky syslinux 
> recipes. Why would you do that when you just just use grub?
> 
> Why use two methods when one will do? One other hint...with a thumb 
> drive, don't bother making a swap partition.
> 
> JIM
> 
> P.S. Yes, there are some tricky issues concerning the mapping between 
> (hd0) and (hd1) to sda and sdb and which of those is the thumb or hard 
> drive, and it even varies depending on whether you do a manual install 
> or a kickstart. And probably the distro as well. And then there is 
> grub2, which does who knows what.
> 
> Chuck Frain wrote:
> > Greetings All,
> > 
> > I'll be building a distro on a thumbdrive and providing the image in
> > some manner for those that want the presentation environment.
> 
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