[Server-devel] an anecdote from Bhagmalpur

2013-06-19 Thread Sameer Verma
An interesting anecdote from Bhagmalpur, India (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com) We just turned on the Internet two weeks ago (thx to Anish Mangal and Kartik Perisetla), but power has been largely missing. The server and Wi-Fi paraphernalia lives at my uncle's house. The kids miss the access a lot

Re: [Server-devel] Best XSCE strategy for us in Pacific with XO-1.5 2GB Testing XSCE 3 on XO 1.5 2GB os855

2013-06-19 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 06:03:37AM +1100, David Leeming wrote: > Finally, is there any performance penalty for running it from the > external SD card? It would depend on the card, which as you know contains a small controller with firmware that is closed to you. Read performance is fundamental to

Re: [Server-devel] Best XSCE strategy for us in Pacific with XO-1.5 2GB Testing XSCE 3 on XO 1.5 2GB os855

2013-06-19 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 06:03 +1100, David Leeming wrote: > All going well so far - managed to install the 13.1.0 os on an 8GB SD card > and have proceeded with the XCSE installation up to including the bootstrap. > > > I assume that as it is on the external SD card anyway, I don't need to run > pr

Re: [Server-devel] Best XSCE strategy for us in Pacific with XO-1.5 2GB Testing XSCE 3 on XO 1.5 2GB os855

2013-06-19 Thread David Leeming
All going well so far - managed to install the 13.1.0 os on an 8GB SD card and have proceeded with the XCSE installation up to including the bootstrap. I assume that as it is on the external SD card anyway, I don't need to run prep-storage? I was also wondering, how important it is to have a USB

Re: [Server-devel] Best XSCE strategy for us in Pacific with XO-1.5 2GB Testing XSCE 3 on XO 1.5 2GB os855

2013-06-19 Thread George Hunt
Thanks James. I always learn a lot from your communications. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:34 PM, James Cameron wrote: > G'day George, > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:27:08PM -0400, George Hunt wrote: > > I followed the suggestions at > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.0# > > External_SD