On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:22, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: > Congrats, Marten! > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:10, David Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote: >> One thing solution we use at openSUSE to get increcremental images, >> ie... you have an older version of SOAS or sugar or whatever image, >> but you want a newer one, well solution is to use rsync, but this >> would need to be enabled by the host (ie wherever all this is being >> hosted downloaded from [bernie, caroline?]): > > AFAIK this won't work with the current images because we are using > squashfs and it's not working well with rsync and binary deltas. > > What's using OpenSUSE instead of squashfs?
More info about why rsync'ing soas images won't save bandwidth: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-March/msg00004.html Regards, Tomeu > Regards, > > Tomeu > >> First check the latest image at: >> >> (This definetly works with openSUSE where sugar is completely >> integrated, even with an icon on the desktop that takes you straight >> into sugar from the desktop. The address for either SugarSuse or >> openSUSE-edu is here: >> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/iso/ ) >> >> The Soas images (snapshots, ie latests sugar) are here as far as I can >> tell: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ >> >> Copy old image with exactly same name as new image available: >> >> cp oldimage.iso exact-name-new-image-is.iso >> >> Run rsync again to patch it: >> >> rsync -avP >> rsync://mirror.leaseweb.com/opensuse/repositories/Education/images/iso/exact-name-new-image-is.iso >> . >> >> Dot at the end with space before it is part of the command. >> >> This will download only the bytes that have changed, which in some >> cases is just few MBs, saving few GBs of download. >> >> Obviously p2p is another good solution to get initial images going if >> a couple of people choose to upload to linuxtracker.org or >> something... >> >> kind Regards, >> David (Nubae) Van Assche >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Marten Vijn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> In the last 24 hours I talked to 12 persons about Sugar. >>> >>> - 6 persons have downloaded sugar and said to give feedback on Sugar >>> >>> - I have send a request for testing to [email protected]. >>> This is one the main mailinglistings in Africa. >>> >>> My findings so far: >>> 1. Asking people to help works. I ask can you help me. Can you download >>> an iso, burn it to cd, boot it, and give you opinion an email? >>> This is very effective in shifting from "talking about" to "doing". >>> >>> 2. The download seems to be slow. >>> >>> Possible sollution, shall I ask for bandwith to mirror the iso image? >>> Can someone make familiar with an optimal solution >>> (syncing/redirecting). >>> >>> kind regards, >>> Marten >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://martenvijn.nl Marten Vijn >>> http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas Sugar on a Stick >>> http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit >>> http://har2009.org 13th-16th August >>> http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Marketing mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
