[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 07:51 +1200, David Leeming wrote:
> > OK thanks. Actually we now have learned to boot direct off
> > the flash drive with most machines here and the local team
> > are sure that they can easily advise the teachers on the
> > remote islands to make the minor change BIOS settings.
> > It works splendidly!
>
> Great. Is this done using the original SoaS, or the modified one with
> the ext3 filesystem directly on the primary partition?
>
> The original SoaS Blueberry filesystem layout has an unsolved problem:
> if you write enough data to fill up the reserved overlay space, the
> system will crash and the stuck will become unbootable.
>
> Besides the potential data loss, I think we shouldn't encourage end
> users to use this layout for production, as it's also slower and may
> wear the stick faster.
>
> The easiest solution, is installing SoaS to the flash drive. Besides my
> complicated procedure, they told me that ZyX liveinstaller does a good
> job, and it's already bundled with Blueberry.
>

You can also use the upstream liveinst to install to a usb drive. You need a
second stick (or a real liveCD) so that you boot the live image off one and
install to the other. I've done it before and it works well.

Peter
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