Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I think this should be done in the overall context of XSCE as proposed by David Farning. I think of what I am doing as a system and not as isolated pieces. The ds-backup is independent because it only addresses backup and restore of the Journal. However, this is going to become more a sys

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread George Hunt
Hi Tony, When you sent me your ds-backup script to migrate student datastore to the server based upon the "favorite" star in the journal, I downloaded the olpc repo, and added your version as a branch, and uploaded it to https://github.com/georgejhunt/ds-backup/blob/ds_on_xs/client/ds-backup.py. T

[Server-devel] XSCE Sprint day 4.

2013-07-11 Thread David Farning
A brief update. George and Jerry made progress getting IIaB to run on the XSCE. It is running, but needs some clean up. Braddock has been a great help. -- Thanks Braddock Santi and Ruben have been testing the new hardware which arrived yesterday. Ubuntu 12.04 runs out of the box. They are trying

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread David Leeming
This will be very useful. Can't wait to try it. David Leeming Solomon Islands -Original Message- From: server-devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org [mailto:server-devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Tony Anderson Sent: Thursday, 11 July 2013 6:49 p.m. To: James Cameron; server-devel@

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread David Farning
Thanks for this thread Creating a place to share and record this knowledge is as important as the code! On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks again. The laptops are good to go for this school year (12.1.0). I > will be able to work the collection stick proble

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Thanks again. The laptops are good to go for this school year (12.1.0). I will be able to work the collection stick problem when I return to the schools (probably in December). I'll double check the flash time to check for variability between units. At these schools all the laptops are XO

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-11 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:07:04AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks again for this! > > What I gather is that we should use Nandblast from an XO for > reflash. For a time it was not supported for XO-1.5, but my current > understanding is that it supported for all versions of XO. Up t