I am uploading a compressed 4GB image at this time to sunjammer : http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/ ETA 3 hrs. (finished about: 2 PM PST)
This may be a feasible distribution method. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux#Download_of_USB.img_file Tom Gilliard David Farning wrote: > Cool, > > The .ks file used in building soas are at > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/trees/master > > david > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Thomas C Gilliard<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I get network collisons on same network from 2 dd USB clones running at same >> time. (Loose F1 neighborhood contents periodically). >> Have to use daveb's solution to clear /.sugar: for new name and color. We >> would want to do this anyway. >> >> rm -rf ~/.sugar >> su - >> {root-password} >> shutdown -h now >> >> Then it works well. >> >> Tom Gilliard >> >> >> David; >> >> Great News. Duplication is possible and quite rapid in terminal: >> >> >> r...@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=/dev/sdg of=USB8.img >> 15687680+0 records in >> 15687680+0 records out >> 8032092160 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 421.146 s, 19.1 MB/s >> r...@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=USB8.img of=/dev/sdg >> 15687680+0 records in >> 15687680+0 records out >> 8032092160 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 2461.4 s, 3.3 MB/s >> r...@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# >> >> Sucessfully copies the USB stick! this is an exact copy and boot and runs >> well. >> >> *Thus one can develop a custom install and then duplicate it. >> * the same command can be repeated by pressing arrow cursor up and hitting >> return with new stick once the .img file is created. >> * I have sucessfully done a [USB4.img.tar.gz] file and then uncompressed it. >> So it should be possible to download USB .img files over the net. >> >> >> I had several failures though.: >> (The USB's are slightly different in size sometimes even though same size >> and manufacturer) >> (Bad elements?) >> >> r...@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=USB4.img of=/dev/sdg >> dd: writing to `/dev/sdg': No space left on device >> 7843840+0 records in >> 7843839+0 records out >> 4016045568 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1008.41 s, 4.0 MB/s >> r...@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# >> >> Still testing >> >> Tom Gilliard >> >> >> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
