<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Gary C Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On 29 Jul 2009, at 21:35, Walter Bender wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Begin handwaving.<br> <br> LiveUSB came from the world of LiveCD and with it came an "overlay"<br> concept to enable writing in what had been a read-only world. It is<br> not clear that the approach was intended for more than demonstration<br> purposes, in order to show off the power of Fedora Linux. That would<br> suggest that in the long run, we may need to revisit the way in which<br> we manage user data on our images.<br> <br> End handwaving.<br> </blockquote> <br></div> +1<br> <br> My gut feeling is we don't want a LiveUSB, we want a bootable USB with a regular install on it. Ideally being installed from a LiveCD, that can either directly boot and demo Sugar, install to a USB stick, or install to a hard-disk. Once booted we'd want the minimum of file writes to maximise a stick lifetime, and reduce the chance of a write landing as a child unplugs.<br> <br> Regards,<br><font color="#888888"> --Gary<br> <br> </font></blockquote></div><br>+1 except I think that we need it sooner not later.<div><br></div><div>It is the most likely suspect on most of our stick failures. We will have upset teachers and kids if its not more reliable plus added expense and time costs.</div> <div><br></div><div>It is a blocker on:</div><div><ul><li>Reading things you've created on your Sugar Stick on a Windows or Mac machine.</li><li>Createing a VM that can switch stick based users without rebooting out of the native OS- This will help usability quite a bit on the Mac Laptops the GPA will be using next year.</li> </ul>I'm going to try to create a spec and publicize our need for help to my network. I'd love help with both parts of that.<br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br> 505-213-3268 - Fax<br> </div>