On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:23, Caroline Meeks<carol...@solutiongrove.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: >> >> On 29 Jul 2009, at 21:35, Walter Bender wrote: >> >>> Begin handwaving. >>> >>> LiveUSB came from the world of LiveCD and with it came an "overlay" >>> concept to enable writing in what had been a read-only world. It is >>> not clear that the approach was intended for more than demonstration >>> purposes, in order to show off the power of Fedora Linux. That would >>> suggest that in the long run, we may need to revisit the way in which >>> we manage user data on our images. >>> >>> End handwaving. >> >> +1 >> >> My gut feeling is we don't want a LiveUSB, we want a bootable USB with a >> regular install on it. Ideally being installed from a LiveCD, that can >> either directly boot and demo Sugar, install to a USB stick, or install to a >> hard-disk. Once booted we'd want the minimum of file writes to maximise a >> stick lifetime, and reduce the chance of a write landing as a child unplugs. >> >> Regards, >> --Gary >> > > +1 except I think that we need it sooner not later. > It is the most likely suspect on most of our stick failures. We will have > upset teachers and kids if its not more reliable plus added expense and time > costs. > It is a blocker on: > > Reading things you've created on your Sugar Stick on a Windows or Mac > machine. > Createing a VM that can switch stick based users without rebooting out of > the native OS- This will help usability quite a bit on the Mac Laptops the > GPA will be using next year. > > I'm going to try to create a spec and publicize our need for help to my > network. I'd love help with both parts of that.
The http://on-disk.com folks didn't offered their expertise on this? But anyway, we don't _need_ an expert. Rather an advanced linux user that can ask the right questions, read shell scripts, inspect a running system, etc. Already asked in the local linux user groups? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Tomeu > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > > _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
