<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> <br><br>> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:08:27 -0500<br>> Subject: Re: [SoaS] Very Urgent! Still need SoaS Help!<br>> From: walter.bender@gmail.com<br>> To: cbigenho@hotmail.com<br>> CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; soas@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-gang@laptop.org<br>> <br>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> > Hi....<br>> > Besides needing to be able to use SoaS at the "Try-It" Lab at SCaLE 8X,  I<br>> > now will also need it next Monday, Jan 25th, to take to an elementary school<br>> > in Buenos Aires!  They have a PC lab that is grossly underused and we are<br>> > hoping we can get SoaS to work on their machines. All they have now is MS<br>> > Office... for an elementary school. The teachers don't like it.<br>> <br>> :)<br>> <br>> > Fortunately, I will have access to several PCs while stopping over in the<br>> > Dallas area to visit our son and family before going to Argentina on Friday.<br>> >  Now... my most urgent question...  logically, the answer should be yes.<br>> >  Will this scenerio work:<br>> <br>> Short answer: No.<div><br></div><div> :-(<br>> <br>> > I download SoaS Blueberry on my son's PC to a usb stick. I check it to make<br>> > sure it works. Then if it is a viable copy, I clone the usb stick directly<br>> > to another one plugged in to the same PC without having to go through the<br>> > long download again.  The folks in Argentina (and at SCaLE 8X) can also make<br>> > clones quickly using these viable copies.<br>> <br>> The problem is that the user data is on initialization and will get<br>> copied each time. You can change the user name and colors in the<br>> control panel, but not the public keys generated on first boot. These<br>> would have to be deleted by hand.</div><div><br></div><div>What would happen if I just took faith that the download was good and cloned it before initializing?  Is the user data specific to a particular machine?<br>> <br>> > Will this work?  Any caveats?  Should I also take a copy of Strawberry?<br>> > Would Strawberry work better if the machines are older?  What is the oldest<br>> > model of PC these will work on?<br>> <br>> Another approach is to copy the Blueberry image locally and then use<br>> the LiveUSB tool to make copies. This is not much more time-consuming<br>> that making replications as per your plan as stated above, but doesn't<br>> require any magic.</div><div><br></div><div>Is the LiveUSB tool a PC thing?  Is it something that exists on all PCs or do I have to take it with me too. If so, does it require another usb stick?  Sorry for the simplistic questions, but I'm a Mac person and that is a whole different world!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again... Caryl</div><div>> <br>> > We leave tomorrow morning!<br>> > Caryl<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > SoaS mailing list<br>> > SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas<br>> ><br>> ><br>> <br>> regards.<br>> <br>> -walter<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Walter Bender<br>> Sugar Labs<br>> http://www.sugarlabs.org<br></div> </body> </html>