[TriLUG] booting an external disk with grub 0.97

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

This, debian comes with very few wifi drivers in the base install.  You
will have to enable contrib and non-free to get many of them like the intel
drivers for example.

Perhaps another option, would it maybe be better to just spin up a small
vps for teaching this.  I think the base digital ocean droplet is like $5 a
month and is more than adequate for a learning environment for python.

Ken

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Alan Porter via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

>
>  I tried the debian-live-standard usb stick.
>>
>
> In general, I would imagine you'd have better luck with the Ubuntu live
> USB stick, since their manta is "it just works".  Debian's mantra is "just
> the free (license) stuff".
>
> That means that stuff like wifi, which usually use some bits of proprietary
> code, is going to be more likely to work on Ubuntu (when booted straight
> out of the box, like from a live USB stick).
>
> Alan