On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:11 PM, John Watlington <w...@laptop.org> wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Anna wrote: > >> Sorry this is so long, but I thought I'd post this in case someone else >> needed something similar. Also, any suggestions to make this more efficient >> are more than welcome. >> >> How I set up an "emergency use" XS on an XO-1 >> >> Since I run a public XS on a big old Dell in my house, I needed a solid >> contingency plan should the power go out. While I have my XS on a UPS, it's >> small and cheap and only keeps it up about half an hour. I do have a power >> inverter that we hook up to a car battery, which keeps the DSL modem, and >> thus our internet, up for many hours so we can use our netbooks. Charging >> an XO shouldn't add that much more drain. So to keep my users happy and >> chatting while I surf the web in the dark, I set up the XS on an XO-1. This >> will also be useful in the summer should my A/C unit go out when it's 100 >> degrees and I don't want my regular equipment to overheat. >> >> I followed the instructions here to set up an 8 GB SD card: >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-on-XO >> It takes forever for the first boot, of course, while moodle initializes. > > I would recommend that you use a class 6 or class 10 full size SD card for > this purpose. > One of the Sandisk Extreme III cards, for example. The extra cost is worth > it for the server. > There is a huge difference in card performance, especially for small file > writes, and > the new larger sized (8+GB) microSD cards tend to be especially bad. > > Great write-up, by the way.
Agreed. This should be put on the wiki somewhere. -walter > > Thanks! > wad > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
