On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:23, Luke Faraone <l...@faraone.cc> wrote: > 2009/5/28 Caroline Meeks <solutiongr...@gmail.com> >> >> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Luke, can you point us to a link where we can learn more about what >>> you are trying to accomplish? >> >> I think this is Ticket 598 to support the Gardner Pilot. the use case is >> here: >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Critical_Path_Technical_Issues > > Yes, that's an accurate description of the goals for this project. > > An installable boot helper would provide functionality not avaliable in a > normal boot-helper ISO, namely increasing boot time (time between a student > inserting a SoaS stick and getting up and running) in addition to less > down-time in between switches (as the machine would be able switch to > another user/SoaS stick without rebooting). > > It would also be trivial to enable features such as on-server backups, live > SoaS upgrades and repairs, and centralized administration by the IT staff. > > The boot-helper is related to a new installer method for this reason: our > current method of formatting and installing SoaS on USB sticks cannot be > read by the boot-helper. LVM snapshots are difficult to read outside of the > context (in this case the kernel used in SoaS) in which they were created. > Therefore, I suggested that we simply have raw EXT3/whatever on the flash > drive, and mount them directly rather than using LVM.
Sounds very good, do we have a timeframe already for testing the first results from this project? Regards, Tomeu > -- > Luke Faraone > http://luke.faraone.cc > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel