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

2013-06-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi James, On 17 June 2013 21:55, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:20:20PM -0400, George Hunt wrote: I ordered a 64GB SD, and have it in hand. It is formatted with exfat disk format, apparently a Microsoft proprietary standard. There is a driver for exfat,

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

2013-06-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Thanks James, On 18 June 2013 00:00, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:14:23PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: I just tried the devalias trick using 13.2.0 as the OS on a XO-4. On initial boot it drops me into dracut appearing to complain about a read-only

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

2013-06-20 Thread David Leeming
Successfully installed XSCE 0.3 on my XO-1.5 (2GB) after first installing XO release 13.1.0 on an 8GB external SD card and then following the standard procedure. First time I ran xs-setup there were some errors probably caused by connectivity issues but when I re-ran xs-setup it successfully

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

2013-06-18 Thread Anish Mangal
One could probably try and roll a 2GB image so it can be installed directly to the internal flash memory... However you'd still need a SD card or a pen drive for storing content but they can be on separate partitions. This way you could add remove content without worrying about the server os

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

2013-06-18 Thread George Hunt
I followed the suggestions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.0#External_SD -- substituting 31035o1.zd for the earlier OS64. devalias fsdisk /sd/disk@1:0 fs-update u:\os64.zd after the reboot, the df command indicated rootfs had a size of 60GB. I was able to write and read from the

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

2013-06-18 Thread George Hunt
This is probably a question for James C. I'm concerned that I may have invalidated the verification, or at least created misleading information. My confession: I couldn't pass up the chance to evolve our prep-storage.sh script that is part of XSCE before I lost the exfat formatting. So I tweaked

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

2013-06-17 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:14:23PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: I just tried the devalias trick using 13.2.0 as the OS on a XO-4. On initial boot it drops me into dracut appearing to complain about a read-only filesystem while attempting resize. Any thoughts on how to debug this? Sure. Check

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

2013-06-17 Thread David Leeming
Thanks all for the great help and information. I will install the 13.1.0 os on my 1.5 on an external 8GB SD card and then test the XCSE installation, and let you know. David Leeming Solomon Islands -Original Message- From: qu...@us.netrek.org [mailto:qu...@us.netrek.org] On Behalf Of