<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. </blockquote><div> 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. </div></div> Peter