[Dextrose] Question about upgrading from 802 to Dextrose

[Bernie Innocenti]

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> Content preview:  On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 18:45 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>    > as previously mentioned to Bernie I'm thinking about using the > international
>    spin of Dextrose on the 25 XO-1s that we're using in our > Austrian pilot
>    project. > > IIRC correctly those XO-1s are currently running 802 and now
>    I was > wondering whether there was a way to upgrade them to Dextrose without
>    > erasing the Journal (e.g. something like olpc-update but using > Dextrose
>    rather OLPC's 10.1.2). [...] 
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> > From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> > To: Christoph Derndorfer <christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com>
> > Cc: dextrose at lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar Devel
> > <Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>, christoph.derndorfer at olpc.at
> > Subject: Re: [Dextrose] Question about upgrading from 802 to
> > Dextrose
> > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:01:04 +0200
> > 
> > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 18:45 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> > > as previously mentioned to Bernie I'm thinking about using the
> > > international spin of Dextrose on the 25 XO-1s that we're using in our
> > > Austrian pilot project.
> > > 
> > > IIRC correctly those XO-1s are currently running 802 and now I was
> > > wondering whether there was a way to upgrade them to Dextrose without
> > > erasing the Journal (e.g. something like olpc-update but using
> > > Dextrose rather OLPC's 10.1.2).
> > 
> > For the first upgrade in Paraguay, we used two very simple shell scripts
> > to backup the journal to a tarball on a usb stick.
> > 
> > The procedure was somewhat cumbersome:
> > 
> > 1) plug in usb stick
> > 2) open terminal
> > 3) /media/USBSTICK/backup_script
> > 4) wait
> > 5) cleanly unmount usb stick
> > 6) reboot
> > 7) flash
> > 8) boot into sugar
> > 9) open terminal
> > 10) /media/USBSTICK/restore_script
> > 
> > Of course, we did this only for specific laptops where the user wanted
> > to preserve information. Many users were perfectly  with erasing their
> > journal completely. Some kids asked to save only one or two files.
> > 
> > If you have a schoolserver, then you should already have daily backups
> > even with 802. You're just missing a restore function.
> > 
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