Talk to Mikus. He is my muse on this stuff. KG
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi All.... > > > I'm looking for an SD card expert... not just theoretical, but someone who > has actually done what I want to be able to do. > > > I am re-locating 10 XO-1 laptops from a CP project that has stalled to a > K-8 school in rural Montana. They have some very enthusiastic teachers who > really want to do all sorts of neat things with the XOs and tell us about > them, plus their principal is very supportive of the project. > > > Because they will be using the laptops for elementary music and middle > school science, along with lots of other things... they could really use > more than 1 GB memory. > > > What I was hoping to do is use an SD card (2GB to 4GB) as auxiliary > memory. I would like to be able to add science Activities like Star Chart > and Constellation Flash Cards on the SD card, have them stay there, and the > journal entries for those Activities stay there too. > > > I tried it today on an XO-1 running 11.2.0 (os874) and it seemed to be > working fine... until... I ejected and removed the SD card to see what was > going on and the Activities (still on the card) were also on the XO! Not > what I am looking for! I don't want them to "live" on the XO, I want them > to "live" on the SD card only. The card won't need to be removed... that was > just to test where the Activities were. > > > Students will probably be asked to save their work on usb drives too... > that is really up to the teachers, but I will strongly suggest it. > > > So... who has experience with this? Can it be done? > > > Caryl (aka GrannieB) > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > support-g...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > >
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