[Edu-sig] Bootable Python CDs?

[Andrew Harrington]

Saving from a CD boot:  flash drives should work.  A kludgey way if you 
have internet and a browser is the email files to yourself.
Andy

Laura Creighton wrote:

>In a message of Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:05:20 EDT, "Paul D. Fernhout" writes:
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>>I previously wrote:
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>>>Then you would have a custom Python which would be useful for wandering
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>>>faculty (assuming the admins let you reboot the machine, and it was 
>>>configured to allowing booting from removable media).
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>>I just noticed this:
>>   http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonCd
>>"Welcome to your Python CD! This is a bootable CD based on [Debian 
>>GNU/Linux and KNOPPIX. The special thing about it is that it has lots of 
>>Python stuff!"
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>>Anyone used it?
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>I didn't even know about it.  Thanks.
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>>I'm curious: is it even practical to expect to walk into most modern 
>>educational computer lab in a typical school and expect to be able to 
>>reboot all the computers to run from your own Python CD? Do people's 
>>school computer labs typically allow a boot from removable media?
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>Around here all student machines get completely wiped every month
>(sometimes every week) without fail.  Otherwise they are packed
>with viruses, porn, and other junk.  So bring-your-own distribution
>is the way to go.  The only tricky thing is making sure that the
>students -- who want to save their own work on a CD -- actually
>do this properly.
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>>--Paul Fernhout
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>Laura
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