David;
Great News. Duplication is possible and quite rapid in terminal:
r...@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=/dev/sdg of=USB8.img
15687680+0 records in
15687680+0 records out
8032092160 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 421.146 s, 19.1 MB/s
r...@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=USB8.img of
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:41:35AM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
[copying USB stick via dd]
Sucessfully copies the USB stick! this is an exact copy and boot and
runs well.
Just a word of caution: Because it's an exact copy, it will duplicate
your "identity" as well if you've ever logged in t
Great information in the comments
"The one thing that needs mentioning is the Jabber based collaboration
element. The collaboration is very powerful, and built in
fundamentally. I have created an EC2 AMI that can be started to allow
on demand Jabber collaboration between sugar pcs. The collaborati
Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:38:38AM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
>
>> Can I avoid this f I set up the USB to not use all of the available
>> space when I allocate the partition sizes in net install method (see
>> link:)
> I don't know enough about the Fedora installati
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 05:07:31AM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
ie: The over-riding determining factor is that the copied to USB stick
has to have equal or greater capacity than the copied from USB stick
for the dd process to be sucessful.
Exactly.
* Do you have a suggestion on how to dete
Hi Caroline,
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 11:36:38AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Nicco's example has a good example use case from the field that relate to
> our work on trying to create a more robust Sugar on a Stick.
I think a session on how to not remove the USB stick unless Sugar is
shut down, p
I am uploading a compressed 4GB image at this time to sunjammer :
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/
ETA 3 hrs. (finished about: 2 PM PST)
This may be a feasible distribution method.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux#Download_of_USB.img_file
Tom Gilliard
David Farning wrot
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 03:03, Sascha Silbe <
sascha-ml-ui-sugar-i...@silbe.org> wrote:
> [copying USB stick via dd]
>
>> Sucessfully copies the USB stick! this is an exact copy and boot and runs
>> well.
>>
> Just a word of caution: Because it's an exact copy, it will duplicate your
> "identity"
Thank you for the caution;
I use daveb's method to clear /.sugar in all uploads of sugar
rm -rf ~/.sugar
su -
{password}
shutdown -h now
This procedure has to be used on all dd copies of USB
If this is not done, there is a network collision between 2 clones on
same network
The generic passwo
Ah, That was me.
There is no zealot like a recent convert, eh?
I'm wondering about the practicality of the EC2 ejabberd server too!!!
So far the big problem is configuring the sugars each time a new
instance is used...the whole restart after setting the jabber server
address is a pain. And
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:39:31AM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
This procedure has to be used on all dd copies of USB
You can also do it on the "master" stick before doing the dd if there's
no data in the Journal you want to preserve.
Note: I have not seen any failures to USB sticks from
I see that the LVM file structure used in F11 is not addressed in the
wiki reference.
I am attaching a screen shot of the structure of one of the sticks FYI.
Are we any better in using live-cd creator for USB creation in Strawberry.?
Is the compressed fs safer to use?
I do not know how to predic
Let me know how I can help!
Thanks,
CAroline
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:47 PM, David Farning wrote:
> It looks like we have enough sustainable contributors to revive the
> Deployment team!
>
> The existing deployment team information is at
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team . I would l
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Let me know how I can help!
Likewise.
> Thanks,
> CAroline
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:47 PM, David Farning
> wrote:
>>
>> It looks like we have enough sustainable contributors to revive the
>> Deployment team!
>>
>> The existing deployme
It was suggested that I post a link to my commentary about Sugar and
education to this list.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary
A quick poll before I go on... how many actively participating
teachers on this list or the wiki? From what countries?
The views expressed ar
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Dennis Daniels wrote:
> It was suggested that I post a link to my commentary about Sugar and
> education to this list.
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary
>
> A quick poll before I go on... how many actively participating
> teachers on this list
Hi All...
Dumb question:
Can all of the Activities listed at:
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/recommended
be added to the SoaS usb stick? (Not all at once, just a chosen few!) What is
the maximum recommended usb stick capacity?
I have a client over on the OLPC RT queue who
Great in theory but I've used Moodle for over three years in public
and private schools.
Teachers did not go to Moodle until the admins told them to(public
school: hand tied/ private school: use Moodle or your fired). We had a
teacher who fought using electronic attendance for a year! And the
admi
GPA Notes 8/4/09
Caroline: Today we are going to learn how to boot the computers from scratch
so we can take our sticks home. How many of you have computers at home?
have computers: 8
Dont' have: 4
Caroline: How many of you had your sticks break during the summer?
Failed sticks: 2
We are hop
I think you are both right.
Dennis, I definitely agree that having older students from Middle and High
Schools going back to their elementary schools and helping to train teachers
is a great strategy. We would love help in implementing that strategy. We
are also talking about partnering with the
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> I think you are both right.
> Dennis, I definitely agree that having older students from Middle and High
> Schools going back to their elementary schools and helping to train teachers
> is a great strategy. We would love help in implementing
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, David Farning wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Caroline Meeks
> wrote:
> > I think you are both right.
> > Dennis, I definitely agree that having older students from Middle and
> High
> > Schools going back to their elementary schools and helping to train
>
GPA? I'm not sure I understand your adult/student ratio at your
installation... what is the ratio?
Team approach? How many are being paid?
What does 'work 10-6' mean?
thanks,
Dennis
> So far all the adults in the school we have talked to have been very
> enthusiastic.
> The GPA uses a team approa
Please see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy .
david
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Dennis Daniels wrote:
> GPA? I'm not sure I understand your adult/student ratio at your
> installation... what is the ratio?
> Team approach? How many are being paid?
> What does 'work 10-6' mean
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Dennis Daniels wrote:
> GPA?
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy
> I'm not sure I understand your adult/student ratio at your
> installation... what is the ratio?
I don;t know. About normal or a bit better. Its a pilot school there are 2
or 3 cl
Looking at your stated computer numbers at GPA and figuring 20
students per class you're clearly not going to have enough machines...
So is the where SoaS is going to get its first big heavy duty user
testing on non OLPC machines? Are you going to dual boot the win2K
machines? Have you tested SoaS
The first step, from the implementation, side is going back to the
basics; focusing on easy technical bugs and easy usability bug. The
goal is establishing respect and trust between the deployment team and
the developer team.
If we reflect on went well and what did not go so well last year.
Not s
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM, David Farning wrote:
> The first step, from the implementation, side is going back to the
> basics; focusing on easy technical bugs and easy usability bug. The
> goal is establishing respect and trust between the deployment team and
> the developer team.
This is go
Hi...
This didn't seem to go through, so I will resend. I would like to add another
question...do any of the Activities requiring peripherals work with SoaS? For
example, what works with Measure? Can you use the temperature probe? Does the
oscilloscope work? Is it possible to use a camera
Hi...
This didn't seem to go through, so I will resend. I would like to add another
question...do any of the Activities requiring peripherals work with SoaS? For
example, what works with Measure? Can you use the temperature probe? Does the
oscilloscope work? Is it possible to use a camera
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi...
> This didn't seem to go through, so I will resend. I would like to add
> another question...do any of the Activities requiring peripherals work with
> SoaS? For example, what works with Measure? Can you use the temperature
> probe? D
> do any of the Activities requiring peripherals work with SoaS? For example,
> what works with Measure? Can you use the temperature probe? Does the
> oscilloscope work?
My recollection is that the audio input for data logging doesnt work on non XO
hardware but I could be wrong. Walter wil
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi...
> This didn't seem to go through, so I will resend. I would like to add
> another question...do any of the Activities requiring peripherals work with
> SoaS? For example, what works with Measure? Can you use the temperature
> probe? D
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