> At its core, your OS is just a bunch of files "But, you NEED to run the installer on that (bare metal) server!" Nope, I can just boot from knoppix (remember?

> At its core, your OS is just a bunch of files "But, you NEED to run the installer on that (bare metal) server!" Nope, I can just boot from knoppix (remember?) and mount the disk and run debootstrap on it. Every so often I run into programmers and sysadmins that believe these things are a kind of magic. They're not. They're just files on a disk. Love this presentation. Thank you! edit: s/mount knoppix/boot from knoppix/