[IAEP] [Fwd: Re: Could a KS file be used in the Fedora11 net install to customize the clone process?] network collisions if /.sugar is not changed

[Thomas C Gilliard]

I am uploading a compressed 4GB image at this time to sunjammer :
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/
ETA 3 hrs.  (finished about: 2 PM PST)

This may be a feasible distribution method.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux#Download_of_USB.img_file

Tom Gilliard

David Farning wrote:
> Cool,
>
> The .ks file used in building soas are at
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/trees/master
>
> david
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Thomas C Gilliard<satellit at mycomspan.com> wrote:
>   
>> I get network collisons on same network from 2 dd USB clones running at same
>> time. (Loose F1 neighborhood contents periodically).
>> Have to use daveb's solution to clear /.sugar: for new name and color. We
>> would want to do this anyway.
>>
>> rm -rf ~/.sugar
>> su -
>> {root-password}
>> shutdown -h now
>>
>> Then it works well.
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>>
>>
>> David;
>>
>> Great News. Duplication is possible and quite rapid in terminal:
>>
>>
>> root at 520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=/dev/sdg of=USB8.img
>> 15687680+0 records in
>> 15687680+0 records out
>> 8032092160 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 421.146 s, 19.1 MB/s
>> root at 520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=USB8.img of=/dev/sdg
>> 15687680+0 records in
>> 15687680+0 records out
>> 8032092160 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 2461.4 s, 3.3 MB/s
>> root at 520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop#
>>
>> Sucessfully copies the USB stick! this is an exact copy and boot and runs
>> well.
>>
>> *Thus one can develop a custom install and then duplicate it.
>> * the same command can be repeated by pressing arrow cursor up and hitting
>> return with new stick once the .img file is created.
>> * I have sucessfully done a [USB4.img.tar.gz] file and then uncompressed it.
>> So it should be possible to download USB .img files over the net.
>>
>>
>> I had several failures though.:
>> (The USB's are slightly different in size sometimes even though same size
>> and manufacturer)
>> (Bad elements?)
>>
>> root at 520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=USB4.img of=/dev/sdg
>> dd: writing to `/dev/sdg': No space left on device
>> 7843840+0 records in
>> 7843839+0 records out
>> 4016045568 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1008.41 s, 4.0 MB/s
>> root at 520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop#
>>
>> Still testing
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>>
>>
>>