add. Creating bootable USB install drives is an ideal option for
netbooks.
Here's a great few minutes long video how-to which makes obvious the
ease with which it can be done. Plenty of distro options to be had
there, too.
Warning: Be ready to either repay or think fast, though as this fellow
is a fast talker :-)
Creating Bootable USB Install Drives with UNetbootin
http://www.linuxjournal.com/video/creating-bootable-usb-install-drives-unetbootin
Find the App demoed here: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
HTH
Carl W Feucht
Librarian
Indianhead International School
Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea
On Feb 18, 2009, at 4:09 AM, Matt Burkhardt wrote:
> Or - you can just go with a Linux distro and use Likewise to join your
> AD domain. Might save you some bucks in the long run.
>
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 14:03 -0500, TJ Rainsford wrote:
>
>> Sherry:
>> Windows XP Home does not support membership in an Active Directory
>> domain.
>> So if you are looking to manage the machines from AD, you would
>> need to
>> upgrade the laptop to at least Windows XP Professional. However,
>> if you are
>> using the machines just for access to networked resources, this
>> should still
>> be possible but you would have to do it manually in many cases (no
>> network
>> based login scripts or pass through authentication).
>>
>> TJ
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sherry Ward <sward@acdsnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> STill looking at netbook possibilities, and seems many netbooks come
>>> with Win XP Home. I've had trouble networking the Home edition
>>> before.
>>> Am I missing something or have others had the same problem.
>>> Solutions?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> sherry
>>>
>>> Sherry Ward
>>> Director of Technology
>>> Alexandria Country Day School
>>> 2400 Russell Road
>>> Alexandria, VA 22301
>>> 703-837-1317 (direct) sward@acdsnet.org
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: A forum for independent school educators
>>> [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Keith E Gatling
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:17 AM
>>> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: OpenOffice: Beyond the Cost Savings
>>>
>>> Something just occurred to me regarding any supposed cost-savings. I
>>> know
>>> that at least for our school, we still have licenses for many
>>> copies of
>>> older versions of Office (both Mac and Windows) that still work, but
>>> just
>>> aren't the latest and greatest. So the only cost-savings would
>>> result
>>> from
>>> not upgrading those versions.
>>>
>>> But now the question arises of what we do about those old
>>> versions. Do
>>> we
>>> start publicizing now that starting in the 2009-10 school year we'll
>>> only be
>>> supporting OpenOffice on the student computers and make the
>>> already paid
>>> for
>>> Microsoft product go away? Do we announce that we'll only be
>>> *teaching*
>>> OpenOffice, but the older versions of Office will still be
>>> available on
>>> the
>>> computers for as long as they'll still run? Is there some third
>>> way that
>>> I
>>> haven't thought of?
>>>
>>> And, by the way, it's my understanding here that we're only talking
>>> about
>>> savings from using OpenOffice on *student* computers, and that
>>> faculty
>>> and
>>> staff members who need and use all the extra bells and whistles
>>> available in
>>> the Microsoft product would still have it available on their
>>> computers.
>>> --
>>> keg
>>>
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>>> Manlius Pebble Hill School
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>>> DeWitt, NY 13214
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>>>
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>>
> Matt Burkhardt, MSTM
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