<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><div class="im">some idea of what is going on.<br> <br></div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br>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.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><font color="#888888"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Art Hunkins</font></div> </font><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;" dir="ltr"><div class="im"> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"> <b>From:</b> <a title="solutiongrove@gmail.com" href="mailto:solutiongrove@gmail.com" target="_blank">Caroline Meeks</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="abhunkin@uncg.edu" href="mailto:abhunkin@uncg.edu" target="_blank">Art Hunkins</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="walter.bender@gmail.com" href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">Walter Bender</a> ; <a title="community-news@lists.sugarlabs.org" href="mailto:community-news@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">community-news@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> ; <a title="iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep</a> ; <a title="sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-dev Devel</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 13, 2009 10:48 AM</div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Sugar-devel] Bill Bogstad's floppy disk boot (Soas)</div> <div><br></div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">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. <div><br></div> <div>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?</div> <div><br></div> <div>Thanks!<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Art Hunkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abhunkin@uncg.edu" target="_blank">abhunkin@uncg.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">With regard to Bill Bogstad's floppy boot disk project for SoaS: it works<br>flawlessly for me. (I've tried it successfully on both an older Windows<br>laptop and desktop - vintages: Pentium II/III.)<br><br>I've one suggestion for Bill: for use by children, I'd make everything as<br>automatic as possible. Either delete the display where the user needs to<br>make a choice (it's *way* technical and *I* didn't know what to do), or put<br>a (10"?) auto-timer on it so that it goes on through (the usual way) without<br>user intervention.<br><br>For Windows people: I suggest creating the boot disk with RAWriteWin. It's<br>simple, user-friendly and efficient.<br><br>Great job, Bill.<br><br>Art Hunkins<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Walter Bender" <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:community-news@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">community-news@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>Cc: "iaep" <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>; "Sugar-dev Devel"<br><<a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 9:55 AM<br>Subject: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-09-11<br><br><br>=== Sugar Digest ===<br><br>7. Bill Bogstad has been working on a floppy boot disk for Sugar on a<br>Stick. See <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/%7Ebogstad/floppy/" target="_blank">http://people.sugarlabs.org/~bogstad/floppy/</a> for more<br>details.<br><br>-walter<br>--<br>Walter Bender<br>Sugar Labs<br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Sugar-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> <br>_______________________________________________<br>Sugar-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>