[Quantian-general] To ISO or not to ISO?

[Christopher Heiny]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 06:23 pm, playing a Disaster Area LP 
backwards at 45 rpm revealed this message from Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> I can recommend not burning isos :)  Look at the HOWTOs about booting
> the iso from disk, or the KNOPPIX files, or use qemu. or vmplayer ...

Ah, but my cunning plan is to distribute the DVDs throughout the 
company, and turn PCs into cluster nodes when they're not otherwise in 
use (nearly 200 potential CPUs, just waiting to be added to our 
existing 7 CPUs).  The easiest way to do that is just give folks a 
disk, and say "put this in your drive, and reboot your machine before 
you go home; then just reboot again when you get back".

Network booting scares the uninitiated, for no apparent good reason.  
However, we'll probably adopt that within my team, who are the primary 
cluster users.

					Chris