Can you video the process please? I am not sure I fully understand what is going on... is the floppy pulling the Sugar off the web and installing it on the HD? How are CDs involved? Dennis
> 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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Cc: "iaep" <[email protected]>; "Sugar-dev Devel" >> <[email protected]> >> 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/ for more >> details. >> >> -walter >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
