<div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/28 Caroline Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:solutiongrove@gmail.com">solutiongrove@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Hi Luke, can you point us to a link where we can learn more about what<br>
you are trying to accomplish?<br></blockquote></div><div>I think this is Ticket 598 to support the Gardner Pilot. the use case is here: <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Critical_Path_Technical_Issues" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Critical_Path_Technical_Issues</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Yes, that's an accurate description of the goals for this project. <br><br>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).<br>
<br>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. <br><br>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. <br>
<br>-- <br>Luke Faraone<br><a href="http://luke.faraone.cc">http://luke.faraone.cc</a><br>