<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Gary Martin <<a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com">garycmartin@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Anish, <div class="im"> On 14 Dec 2010, at 15:05, Anish Mangal <<a href="mailto:anish@sugarlabs.org">anish@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: > Hi, > > tch, roberto, carlos and me had a nice discussion on the road-map > ahead for the xo deployment in py. Among other things, we talked about > the way the xo's are going to be updated. The current method using > nand flash is 'painfully slow', and there *must* be a better way to > update the xo's. </div>Just wanted to check that nand blasting has been investigated? Excluding the backup of Journal and subsequent restore process, you can nand blast a fresh build image to room full of XO's in little more than the time it takes to flash one. <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nandblaster" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nandblaster</a> </blockquote><div> Yeah, Paraguay was one of the first deployments to nand blast massively. But it is not an option anymore. It is too expensive, and still requires a lot of human effort to massively update laptops. And it does not make sense to make fresh re install in most of the cases. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> --Gary <div class="im"> > tch tells me that work on the yum based updater is almost finished. We > have about 10 xo's here at the pyeduca office and can quickly get to > testing. It would be ideal, if we can have the yum updater pushed in > the dextrose mainline, so that we have plenty to time to test > extensively (and subsequently, not drop any bombs at caacupe ;-)). The > tentative date for the arrival of new xo's here is feb. Also, the > current 0.84 xo's will be updated to dextrose, so we should have a > stable yum updater before that. > > Aside from this, I'm working on the microformat based updater (also a > requirement here). I guess it already works, but I'll have a better > version out very soon. > > tch leaves for uy in 10 days, so we're hoping to start testing before that. > > -- > Anish | <a href="mailto:anish@sugarlabs.org">anish@sugarlabs.org</a> </div>> _______________________________________________ > Dextrose mailing list > <a href="mailto:Dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org">Dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose</a> _______________________________________________ Dextrose mailing list <a href="mailto:Dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org">Dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose</a> </blockquote></div>