School Project; please read

[Silent Ph03nix]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>      Well, for the first time in literally years, a break appears: if I 
> can write a how-to on setting up an "Introduction to Linux" class, the 
> local college will PAY me to do it.  Teaching...getting paid...two 
> things I thought I wouldn't really see again...   :>
>
>      Technical questions: ('cause this is that list)
>
>      They have all Windows boxes; probably 2k3 or XP. Vista, if they 
> hurt someone in a past life...it is enough to have them resize, say, 5G 
> of their drives to install Linux?  How tough is that? (I've not 
> maintained Windows this century...)
>
>      Is it possible to hand out "Live" CDs and do anything meaningful on 
> them, like learning spreadsheets, word processing, etc?  I'm assuming 
> any school work would have to connect to a shared-space, someplace...
>
>      Are there other low-cost ways to present Linux to a room full of 
> students, easily?  (I'm aware of LTSP; I'm also aware of netbooting 
> having changed drastically since I used it...but I love the idea)
>
>      If we can get this class going, there's a good chance of exposure! 
> (And I stay out of child-support prison...)
>   
I teach Linux System Administration at a local University
(RedHat/Fedora, unfortunately, but I didn't write the curriculum.)  In
our classes, and when I got my bachelor's degree, we used removable hard
drives.  I liked the way the college I attended did things rather than
the way the college I teach at does things.  The way I like is that the
university actually kept the hard drives on site so that the students
couldn't forget them, etc.  Also, the prof could make sure that they
were setup the way they needed to be for class rather than spending a
day getting them ready (unless that is part of the class).  Where I am
teaching, the students maintain control of their hard drives and forget
them some nights and we have to deal with all the games/cr at p that they
load on them and then have them complain if they have to be re-formatted
for the beginning of class.  Just a thought that might help with needing
different OSs at different times.

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