[Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] Question about upgrading from 802 to Dextrose

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:52, Christoph Derndorfer
<christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> > > -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> > > 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
>
> Thanks a lot for these instructions.
>
>>
>> > > 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.
>
> Interesting, I wasn't aware of that.
>
> If I remember correctly I had set up XS 0.5 at the school, how would I find
> out whether the backups were made and if so how do I restore them to the XOs
> after I install Dextrose on them?

There's quite a bit of info here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:SchoolServer

Regards,

Tomeu

> Thanks again for all your help,
> Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Derndorfer
> co-editor, olpcnews
> url: www.olpcnews.com
> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sugar-devel mailing list
> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>
>