Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] SD Card Expert Needed
On 25.08.2011, at 04:27, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: When you use an activity from an USB or SD card..The activity is copied to the system. Not in my experience. I've been using Activities from an SD card for four years now, and Sugar has NEVER copied those to the system (ie, to the flash memory). If you click a .xo bundle, Sugar *will* unpack it into ~/Activities. If you unpack it onto an SD Card yourself, Sugar will not see it. Unless ... [Before I start Sugar, I've set up pointers (in /home/olpc/Activities) to where the (unpacked) activity files actually reside.] ... you manually do this step to make Sugar think it was installed in a regular way. In any case, the activity would still write to the Journal unless it has specific support to write somewhere else. - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] SD Card Expert Needed
Kevin Gordon wrote Talk to Mikus. He is my muse on this stuff. On multiple occasions (including this one) when Caryl has posted a question to which I have previously developed an answer, I've offered Caryl my help. None of my offers have gotten a response. mikus ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] SD Card Expert Needed
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:52:23AM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Kevin Gordon wrote Talk to Mikus. He is my muse on this stuff. On multiple occasions (including this one) when Caryl has posted a question to which I have previously developed an answer, I've offered Caryl my help. None of my offers have gotten a response. mikus In the age of email boxes brimming with stuff to read, it can get lost in the shuffle or perhaps it was eatten by a rogue spam filter :) -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux ==.| http://kevix.myopenid.com..| | : :' : The Universal OS| mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/.| | `. `' http://www.debian.org/.| http://counter.li.org [#238656]| |___`-Unless I ask to be CCd,.assume I am subscribed._| An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] SD Card Expert Needed
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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] SD Card Expert Needed
When you use an activity from an USB or SD card..The activity is copied to the system. Not in my experience. I've been using Activities from an SD card for four years now, and Sugar has NEVER copied those to the system (ie, to the flash memory). [Before I start Sugar, I've set up pointers (in /home/olpc/Activities) to where the (unpacked) activity files actually reside.] mikus ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
