[Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

[Luke Faraone]

 2009/5/28 Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com>

> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Luke, can you point us to a link where we can learn more about what
>> you are trying to accomplish?
>>
> I think this is Ticket 598 to support the Gardner Pilot.  the use case is
> here:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Critical_Path_Technical_Issues
>

Yes, that's an accurate description of the goals for this project.

An installable boot helper would provide functionality not avaliable in a
normal boot-helper ISO, namely increasing boot time (time between a student
inserting a SoaS stick and getting up and running) in addition to less
down-time in between switches (as the machine would be able switch to
another user/SoaS stick without rebooting).

It would also be trivial to enable features such as on-server backups, live
SoaS upgrades and repairs, and centralized administration by the IT staff.

The boot-helper is related to a new installer method for this reason: our
current method of formatting and installing SoaS on USB sticks cannot be
read by the boot-helper. LVM snapshots are difficult to read outside of the
context (in this case the kernel used in SoaS) in which they were created.
Therefore, I suggested that we simply have raw EXT3/whatever on the flash
drive, and mount them directly rather than using LVM.

-- 
Luke Faraone
http://luke.faraone.cc
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