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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I use the "liveinst" command (fedora
anaconda installer) in sugar root terminal [# ] to install to a 4
GB USB (with a led activity indicator)<br>
Teach the students to wait for the flashes to stop before removing
them.<br>
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These USB can be very cheap (I purchased some EMTEC 4GB for $9.95
recently)<br>
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Look at this tutorial:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/Install_with_liveinst">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/Install_with_liveinst</a><br>
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Other sugar related tutorials are located here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials</a><br>
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This installs a real file system to the Soas USB. This is a much
more robust form of SoaS Stick.<br>
It does not rely on a frangible persistence file<br>
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Tom Gilliard<br>
satellit on #sugar IRC freenode<br>
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On 11/22/2012 08:24 AM, Pato Acevedo wrote:<br>
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<div>>1. What size of USB will you use? Last time I
looked, Sugar Labs recommended 1 GB. We use 4GB. Our
Computer Science student wishes we had gone with 8GBs. We do
get frozen computers >when students open too many
activities. If they save video items from Record, you will
want more persistent space, and getting young kids to record
poetry or songs will be a big hit! </div>
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<div>We took videos of our traditional rhymes.</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2c6un_SugarLabsChile_soas-sugar/1#video=xeflf1">http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2c6un_SugarLabsChile_soas-sugar/1#video=xeflf1</a></div>
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<div>Initially we used record activity but found better
results recorded directly from dailymotion through browser
activity (flash player&conectivity required). Both are
registered in our planning published in WikiEducator.</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wikieducator.org/Editing_User:Werner/My_sandbox/Integracion_Curricular_Sugar/Planificaciones_NB2_Expresi%C3%B3n_Oral">http://wikieducator.org/Editing_User:Werner/My_sandbox/Integracion_Curricular_Sugar/Planificaciones_NB2_Expresi%C3%B3n_Oral</a></div>
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<div>>2. Will your computers boot from USB? At one school,
kids hit F12 on start-up, that gives them a boot menu, and
they choose the USB stick. At the other location, the IT
staff changed the boot >order on all the computers so the
computers now look for the USB stick first, then the hard
drive. The later would probably be better with young kids.
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<div>>That said, your lab may or may not allow you to
access your boot order. We have run into a lot of home
computers that do not allow students to access boot order.
Your IT people will obviously >have a lot to say about
how the sticks will be accessed. </div>
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<div>>3. Sticks will fail at a high rate. As I mentioned
in my first post, we have about a 20% failure rate on our
sticks every sessions. Yesterday, one student had to try 3
sticks before we got one that >would work. This means we
always take a lot of back-ups. We have been at this
location for 7 weeks, one hour / week, and only one out of
10 students was still using the same stick we gave him
>on day one. Most are on their second, and a few 3 or
more. We were able to figure out that one computer was the
problem, not the sticks, so be prepared to be methodical in
tracking the sticks >and computers. </div>
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<div>UUff, this is a big problem. Our initial hypotesis was to
found that computers produced more damaged sticks. Moreover,
we find some correlation between students anxious / usb
failed / PC or netbook with higher failure rate. The
problem diminished some when we teach these students the
meaning of the flashing LED on the usb. If you had blinked,
you had to wait. </div>
<div>A critical moment for us was closing time. Allow
sufficient time for safe removal. There is a compression and
decompression process that must be completed to avoid
damaging the USB Stick.</div>
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