[Server-devel] consequences of re-registering with XS
Hi, As I noted here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_wishlist#Delete_registration_info we are in a sticky situation where a load of XOs are registered to one XS, which no longer exists. We want to register them to a new one, and we are having to manually go to each laptop and modify the sugar config file to allow us to register again. To avoid this situation in future (should we ever run into it again, fingers crossed we won't), we are considering a small modification to the paraguay OS build which makes the Discard network history button also clear the XS registration information (by deleting the server.backup1 line from sugar config). This code modification can be done with a single sed call, since there is already an unused sugar function to clear registration info. Of course, this means that the users (children) can now trivially lose their registration data. Are there any undesirable consequences of this that I am missing? For example, what happens if a user deletes the registration data and then re-registers with the same server.. does the XS cope with that happily? Any other points I should keep in mind, or any other options to avoiding this small nightmare in future? Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] xs-activation-server over IPv6
2009/2/8 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: So initially I am going with #1-- do you think you can tweak the initrd a bit more to poke at ef01 over mesh, and ef02 over abg? Looking at activate.py, adding it to the array in try_network()... Thanks, done! New patch at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9246 Are your XS-side changes included in the latest 0.5.1 release, or is this scheduled for later? Thanks! Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] rsync on xs-dev
Currently only through ssh. I assume you mean an rsync daemon, serving up the xs images ? I think that could be arranged... wad On Feb 12, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: Does xs-dev.laptop.org support rsync? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] rsync on xs-dev
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:25 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Currently only through ssh. I assume you mean an rsync daemon, serving up the xs images ? I think that could be arranged... I was trying to rsync ISOs last night (updating an older release) but it didn't work...might help those who have limited bandwidth. Sameer wad On Feb 12, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: Does xs-dev.laptop.org support rsync? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] rsync on xs-dev
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:27:03PM -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: I was trying to rsync ISOs last night (updating an older release) but it didn't work...might help those who have limited bandwidth. You can rsync over SSH, and you can use --partial to ensure that the data you have got so far is not wasted for when you have to restart. Bare rsync is merely slightly more efficient, since the data is not encrypted and encapsulated by the SSH connection. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Install from NFS server
I am trying to install the server on a machine without CD drive via NFS server. I have set up the latter and the new machine seems to be finding the share. But it reports: That directory does not seem to contain an OLPC school server installation tree I have put only the 0.5.1 image in the shared folder. Can U help. What else should be in the shared folder? I am using a USB flash drive to kick start but can't get anywhere with that when it comes to the directory containing the school server image, it reports that the directory does not seem to contain any (whereas it does). So I am now pointing it at an NFS server when it gets to that stage David Leeming ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
