Mounting ISO

[A. Jorge Garcia]

On 01/23/2011 07:13 AM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote:
>> Jorge, hold on first, you mentioned puppy linux.. my experience with
> puppy
>> is not so good, for a few good reasons, the one (out of many)
> pertinent to
>> you is that it chews up some partition for itself; some people call
> it the
>> 'swap', but I think it uses the chewed partition like the
> 'persistent-rw'
>> for keeping any changes. So I had not tried puppy for many years.
>
> Well, I do not usually use Puppy Linux, but the SAGE folks seem to 
like
> it.  I tried booting the CD a few times and it seems to work OK 
without
> messing up any existing partitions. I do have a 512MB swap partition 
on
> each box.  BTW, we have 25 dual-core 64bit Athlons.

> As long as you do not 'save session' when shutting down, I think it 
will
> be okay and puppy will not chew up your partition, but it is 
something
> to watch out for.

> Another more serious concern for you, as you let lots of others to
> access your computer is that they will have access to your other
> partitions and hard disks as well; and the fact that when they do 
that
> with puppy, they are logged in effectively as root and I think it is
> something which I will never find acceptable.

Puppy users are root by default?  That's really odd!  Is there some way 
to use the SAGE binary as if it were an ISO instead?  I assume that the 
binary is meant to be used to install a dedicated server, right?  The 
problem is that I do not have extra hardware for that at the moment, 
although that probably should be my ultimate goal.  The only problem is 
that I've heard people telling some horror stories on the sage-edu, 
sage-support and sage-devel google groups when they didn't compile from 
source when installing a local SAGE server.

You know, that's one thing that I've found odd about Ubuntu as well.  
The user you create when installing Ubuntu is efffectively root.  At 
least you still have to provide a passwd to change any important 
settings.  However, for my student boxes, I had to make a bogus user 
account (shadowfax) and not give out the passwd as I do not want them 
to have root access.  This setup requires me to setup each box so it 
boots straight to the desktop without a login screen which I don't care 
for either, but its the lesser of 2 evils!

TIA,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math and CompSci
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009

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