Fwd: Re[2]: K12 KLUG possibility: Demolinux possibilities

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

POSTED BY: tgray@adacplastics.com
I'm forwarding this back to the list where I think he intended it to go, it was
sent specifically to me.

>>Except for a few stand-alone W95 machines in classrooms, all the computers
>>in the highschool, the middleschool , and tghe elementaryh school are
>>networked.  The primary network used is Novell.  There is a 3-disk RAID
>>backup, UPS, multiple servers.  My wife for example when she uses MS word,
>>downloads the program onto her harddrive for that session, saving her work
>>on her partition of a server.  Said server(s) have partitions for groups,
>>applications (word resides there), images, ...
ATW> Huh. My Novell experience is very limited,  I took a LAN class that
focused on
ATW> Novell and my thought was "this is one wierd package".  I think I'll stick
to
ATW> that opnition.

We use Novell here where I work.  It's wierd, but very usable and
stable, also very secure out of box.

I have some experience with booting from DOS and logging into a server
and using ghost to upgrade a HDD or back up files.  I'd be willing to
assist you if you're not too far away.