[IAEP] SD Card Expert Needed

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hummmm....
Does anyone know if what I want to do will work on os860?  I just want to keep certain Activities on the SD card without having them install to the XO.  I am currently using os874.
Thanks!Caryl
P.S. I am thinking that if this can work, it will be great for all XO-1 deployments who want to have more Activities on their laptops.  I was in the process of writing an "Educator's Guide" to doing this (to post on the wiki) when I ran into trouble and found I couldn't make it work the way I had hoped (extra Activities "live" on SD card and don't take up memory storage space on the XO).
> To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
> CC: alanjas at hotmail.com; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> From: forster at ozonline.com.au
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:30:53 +1000
> Subject: Re: Re: [IAEP] SD Card Expert Needed
> 
> Hi
> 
> When you install an Activity, the xo bundle, which is a zip file, is unzipped and copied to /home/olpc/Activities
> 
> The Activity is installed when you click on a xo bundle or download or copy (maybe?) a bundle to the journal.
> 
> Deleting a xo bundle from the journal depends on your build, on some it uninstalls the Activity, on others it does not.
> 
> Activities can be uninstalled from the home list view.
> 
> Hope this helps
> I am not an expert
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> > 
> > �Hola Alan!
> > Did you see my other note to you about I Know America?
> > Some questions about your answer... how do you keep the Activity from getting copied into the system (flash memory)?  I just tested it again. I put in the SD card. Opened an Activity that was on it but not on the XO. When I finished, I removed the SD card and found that the Activity had copied onto the XO. Not what I was looking for... :-(
> > Maybe it is because I am using 874?Caryl
> > From: alanjas at hotmail.com
> > To: cbigenho at hotmail.com; support-gang at lists.laptop.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > Subject: RE: [IAEP] SD Card Expert Needed
> > Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:58:07 +0000
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello!
> > When you use an activity from an USB or SD card..The activity is copied to the system.. (to the flash memory)When you use an activity from the journal.. the activity don't copy.. the activity is installed with the files fromthe journal.. a simbolic link's... When you remove the entry from the journal.. it remove the activity...That was happend on old sugar.. in the new.. I don't know.. but I think that is equal...
> > The work's can be saved on the SD without problem.. and I think that is a good form to get some space forthe activitys..
> > Alan
> > From: cbigenho at hotmail.com
> > To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:47:29 -0700
> > Subject: [IAEP] SD Card Expert Needed
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi All....
> > 
> > 
> > I'm looking for an SD card expert... not just theoretical, but someone who has actually done what I want to be able to do.
> > 
> > 
> > I am re-locating 10 XO-1 laptops from a CP project that has stalled to a K-8 school in rural Montana.  They have some very enthusiastic teachers who really want to do all sorts of neat things with the XOs and tell us about them, plus their principal is very supportive of the project.
> > 
> > 
> > Because they will be using the laptops for elementary music  and middle school science, along with lots of other things... they could really use more than 1 GB memory.
> > 
> > 
> > What I was hoping to do is use an SD card (2GB to 4GB) as auxiliary memory.  I would like to be able to add science Activities like Star Chart and Constellation Flash Cards on the SD card, have them stay there, and the journal entries for those Activities stay there too.  
> > 
> > 
> > I tried it today on an XO-1 running 11.2.0 (os874) and it seemed to be working fine... until... I ejected and removed the SD card to see what was going on and the Activities (still on the card) were also on the XO!  Not what I am looking for!  I don't want them to "live" on the XO, I want them to "live" on the SD card only. The card won't need to be removed... that was just to test where the Activities were.
> > 
> > 
> > Students will probably be asked to save their work on usb drives too... that is really up to the teachers, but I will strongly suggest it.
> > 
> > 
> > So... who has experience with this?  Can it be done? 
> > 
> > 
> > Caryl (aka GrannieB) 		 	   		  
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> > IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep 		 	   		   		 	   		  <html>
> > <head>
> > <style><!--
> > .hmmessage P
> > {
> > margin:0px;
> > padding:0px
> > }
> > body.hmmessage
> > {
> > font-size: 10pt;
> > font-family:Tahoma
> > }
> > --></style>
> > </head>
> > <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>
> > �Hola Alan!<div><br></div><div>Did you see my other note to you about I Know America?</div><div><br></div><div>Some questions about your answer... how do you keep the Activity from getting copied into the system (flash memory)?  I just tested it again. I put in the SD card. Opened an Activity that was on it but not on the XO. When I finished, I removed the SD card and found that the Activity had copied onto the XO. Not what I was looking for... :-(</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe it is because I am using 874?</div><div>Caryl</div><div><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: alanjas at hotmail.com<br>To: cbigenho at hotmail.com; support-gang at lists.laptop.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org<br>Subject: RE: [IAEP] SD Card Expert Needed<br>Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:58:07 +0000<br><br>
> > 
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode">
> > <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML">
> > <style>
> > .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P
> > {padding:0px;}
> > .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage
> > {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;}
> > 
> > </style>
> > 
> > <div dir="ltr">
> > <div><br></div>Hello!<div><br></div><div>When you use an activity from an USB or SD card..The activity is copied to the system.. (to the flash memory)</div><div>When you use an activity from the journal.. the activity don't copy.. the activity is installed with the files from</div><div>the journal.. a simbolic link's... When you remove the entry from the journal.. it remove the activity...</div><div>That was happend on old sugar.. in the new.. I don't know.. but I think that is equal...</div><div><br></div><div>The work's can be saved on the SD without problem.. and I think that is a good form to get some space for</div><div>the activitys..</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: cbigenho at hotmail.com<br>To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org<br>Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:47:29 -0700<br>Subject: [IAEP] SD Card Expert Needed<br><br>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > <style>
> > .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P
> > {padding:0px;}
> > .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage
> > {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;}
> > </style>
> > 
> > <div dir="ltr">
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Hi All....</p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><br></p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica">I'm looking for an SD card expert... not just theoretical, but someone who has actually done what I want to be able to do.</p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><br></p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica">I am re-locating 10 XO-1 laptops from a CP project that has stalled to a K-8 school in rural Montana.  They have some very enthusiastic teachers who really want to do all sorts of neat things with the XOs and tell us about them, plus their principal is very supportive of the project.</p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><br></p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Because they will be using the laptops for elementary music  and middle school science, along with lots of other things... they could really use more than 1 GB memory.</p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><br></p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica">What I was hoping to do is use an SD card (2GB to 4GB) as auxiliary memory.  I would like to be able to add science Activities like Star Chart and Constellation Flash Cards on the SD card, have them stay there, and the journal entries for those Activities stay there too.  </p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><br></p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica">I tried it today on an XO-1 running 11.2.0 (os874) and it seemed to be working fine... until... I ejected and removed the SD card to see what was going on and the Activities (still on the card) were also on the XO!  Not what I am looking for!  I don't want them to "live" on the XO, I want them to "live" on the SD card only. The card won't need to be removed... that was just to test where the Activities were.</p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><br></p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Students will probably be asked to save their work on usb drives too... that is really up to the teachers, but I will strongly suggest it.</p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><br></p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica">So... who has experience with this?  Can it be done? </p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px"><br></p>
> > <p style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Caryl (aka GrannieB)</p> 		 	   		  </div>
> > <br>_______________________________________________
> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> > IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</div></div> 		 	   		  </div></div></div> 		 	   		  </div></body>
> > </html>_______________________________________________
> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> > IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
> 
 		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/attachments/20110824/58f2a897/attachment-0001.html>