[Sugar-devel] Bill Bogstad's floppy disk boot (Soas)

[Caroline Meeks]

> some idea of what is going on.
>
> I've tested CD helper vs. floppy helper on Pentium III generation computer.
> On these, floppies take *way* longer than CD's: 5 minutes (minimum) to 1
> (actually, more like 10:2). Even though boot times are significant, the
> actual *Activity* executions are satisfactory (though hardly "peppy").
> Overall performance is similar to the XO-1.
>

Wow, thats very different then the results I've gotten. I found that it took
a minute for the floppy to boot, then it starts the USB boot which takes the
same amount of time as it does without the floppy. Thus we add about a
minute.  I wonder what the difference is.


>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> *To:* Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> *Cc:* Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> ;
> community-news at lists.sugarlabs.org ; iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org> ; Sugar-dev
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> *Subject:* Re: [Sugar-devel] Bill Bogstad's floppy disk boot (Soas)
>
> I tested this on the GPA computer lab computers. It takes about 1 more
> minute (4.5 vs 3.5) to boot.  I think that it will take more then a minute
> on average to give all the students CDs, have them open the CD drawer, turn
> off the computer, turn it on again and collect all the CD at the end of
> class so that the next class boots into Windows.  My plan is the floppies
> can just live in the machines, not pushed in all the way.
> The current version
> requires the user to press enter 1 minute into the process. Can we get a version that we just start the boot, then goto the rug for our lesson and 4.5 minutes later the machines are booted?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>
>> With regard to Bill Bogstad's floppy boot disk project for SoaS: it works
>> flawlessly for me. (I've tried it successfully on both an older Windows
>> laptop and desktop - vintages: Pentium II/III.)
>>
>> I've one suggestion for Bill: for use by children, I'd make everything as
>> automatic as possible. Either delete the display where the user needs to
>> make a choice (it's *way* technical and *I* didn't know what to do), or
>> put
>> a (10"?) auto-timer on it so that it goes on through (the usual way)
>> without
>> user intervention.
>>
>> For Windows people: I suggest creating the boot disk with RAWriteWin. It's
>> simple, user-friendly and efficient.
>>
>> Great job, Bill.
>>
>> Art Hunkins
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> To: <community-news at lists.sugarlabs.org>
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>> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 9:55 AM
>> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-09-11
>>
>>
>> === Sugar Digest ===
>>
>> 7. Bill Bogstad has been working on a floppy boot disk for Sugar on a
>> Stick. See http://people.sugarlabs.org/~bogstad/floppy/<http://people.sugarlabs.org/%7Ebogstad/floppy/>for more
>> details.
>>
>> -walter
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