Hi Gustavo
The AMbuntu image for USB works great. Just buy decent USB memory sticks.
2GB is fine, 4GB is plenty. The students can run on the memory sticks and
save their data there etc and take them with them when they are done to
practice on. It is a bit of a pain in the butt on Macs because they won't
boot off of USB but it works great on any X86 machine including most laptops
if the students want to bring their own.
I'll see if I have the image for Shanghai if you want to use this approach
and you can use that.
All the best
Ross
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gustavo Seabra [mailto:gustavo.seabra.gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:41 AM
> To: AMBER Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [AMBER-Developers] Amber on Live-CD?
>
> Em terça-feira, 29 de novembro de 2011, Jason Swails:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everybody,
> >>
> >> I am planning a class on molecular dynamics applications, and was
> >> thinking on having an Amber installation on a Linux Live-CD, so that
> >> it could be installed on the computers to be used by the student
> >> during the class, and making sure all students have exactly the same
> >> environment.
> >>
> >> Notice the students will not take the CDs home with them... It's
> just
> >> to easily prepare a computer on a lab for the class. A kind of a
> >> portable Amber Workshop, if you will.
> >>
> >> So, I was wondering:
> >>
> >> 1. Is there any legal / licencing issues I should be aware of?
> >>
> >> 2. Any ideas on what Linux distribution would be better suited for
> this
> CD?
> >>
> >> 3. Has anyone done anything like that before and would be willing to
> >> share the experience?
> >>
> >
> > As Adrian mentioned, I put one together for the workshop in
> Barcelona.
> > It's literally just an ISO of a LiveCD Linux Distro that has all of
> Amber
> > pre-installed built on Ubuntu.
> >
> > You can burn it to a CD or load it to a USB drive and it should work
> fine
> > (it has both the serial and parallel builds built). It also has the
> source
> > code ripped out for the paid parts so there shouldn't be any
> licensing
> > issues on Amber's end that I know of (Dave may want to chime in
> here).
> The
> > only issue is that I've named it "AMbuntu", which I think I have to
> ask
> > Ubuntu permission to do, legally. They shouldn't have a problem with
> it,
> I
> > don't think. (It also has the ability to install Ubuntu ripped out
> as
> > well, so it can't be used to install on a computer -- live boot
> only).
> >
> > It does have the Barcelona website loaded for it, which could easily
> be
> > changed (I think I modified one quickly for the Shanghai workshop
> that
> Ross
> > and Andy put on). The ISO is on one of Ross's servers, and I have a
> copy
> > locally as well, which we're more than willing to share.
> >
>
> Thanks, that is precisely what I'm looking for. Do you mind making it
> available somewhere I can download it?
>
> Gustavo.
>
>
>
> --
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> Departamento de Química Fundamental
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