Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade many machines

2013-12-30 Thread James Cameron
Summary: use a few USB drives or NANDblaster, not the server. On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 01:18:16AM -0500, Adam Gordon wrote: > Is there a good way to upgrade allot of XO's (1.5 + 1.75) from a > custom unsigned 12.1 to an unsigned custom 13.2 using the server? No, not really. Using the server is ve

[Server-devel] Upgrade many machines

2013-12-30 Thread Adam Gordon
Is there a good way to upgrade allot of XO's (1.5 + 1.75) from a custom unsigned 12.1 to an unsigned custom 13.2 using the server? If so: - What do I need from oob? - What do I do on the server? - What do the kids do on the laptops? ___ Server-devel maili

Re: [Server-devel] How do the clients find a School Server in "appliance mode"

2013-12-30 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 08:26:33PM -0800, Braddock wrote: > [...] > A big problem we've faced with IIAB appliances on XO deployments is > that the OLPC OS does not turn on mDNS name resolution by default in > /etc/nsswitch.conf (although the necessary software is installed). > On the XO laptop, all

Re: [Server-devel] a kernel for our solidrun protos?

2013-12-30 Thread George Hunt
After a few false starts: - Putting the microsd card upside down does not work. - The microusb console connector is really intermittent (does not seat well with my connector body). - My hdmi to vga adapter causes the monitor to jitter I was not able to get the stock u-boot that Rabeeh

[Server-devel] How do the clients find a School Server in "appliance mode"

2013-12-30 Thread Braddock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I was introduced to XSCE "Appliance Mode", which raises some great possibilities, but also some difficulties which need to be addressed, and which Internet-in-a-Box appliances have already faced. If a school server is installed on a network i

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE 0.5

2013-12-30 Thread George Hunt
In order to change from a appliance machine to a gateway machine, the playbook and ansible will need to rewrite the iptables, and get the ports right so that dansguardian properly filters content that comes from the internet. I doubt very much that all this would work, without running "./runansibl

[Server-devel] 10AM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2013-12-30 Thread Adam Holt
Seems some people forgot to take a Christmas/New Year/Etc break and we have an awful lot to talk about January 2nd, whether or not Cubox + XSCE 0.5 + Internet-in-a-Box will be sold at every Walmart in Haiti for $99, but perhaps not before Thursday arrives :-) See you then, 10AM NYC Time this Thurs

[Server-devel] Upcoming IIAB release and XSCE

2013-12-30 Thread Braddock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi XSCE folks, We are planning a new software and dataset Internet-in-a-Box release this week. I'm receiving a certain amount of nudging to get this out so it can be deployed on XSCE School Servers in Haiti in just a couple weeks. While we will be ma