I use the "liveinst" command (fedora anaconda installer) in sugar root
terminal [# ] to install to a 4 GB USB (with a led activity indicator)
Teach the students to wait for the flashes to stop before removing them.
These USB can be very cheap (I purchased some EMTEC 4GB for $9.95 recently)
Look at this tutorial:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/Install_with_liveinst
Other sugar related tutorials are located here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials
This installs a real file system to the Soas USB. This is a much more
robust form of SoaS Stick.
It does not rely on a frangible persistence file
Tom Gilliard
satellit on #sugar IRC freenode
On 11/22/2012 08:24 AM, Pato Acevedo wrote:
Hi:
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>1. What size of USB will you use? Last time I looked, Sugar Labs
recommended 1 GB. We use 4GB. Our Computer Science student wishes we
had gone with 8GBs. We do get frozen computers >when students open too
many activities. If they save video items from Record, you will want
more persistent space, and getting young kids to record poetry or
songs will be a big hit!
We took videos of our traditional rhymes.
http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2c6un_SugarLabsChile_soas-sugar/1#video=xeflf1
Initially we used record activity but found better results recorded
directly from dailymotion through browser activity (flash
player&conectivity required). Both are registered in our planning
published in WikiEducator.
http://wikieducator.org/Editing_User:Werner/My_sandbox/Integracion_Curricular_Sugar/Planificaciones_NB2_Expresi%C3%B3n_Oral
>2. Will your computers boot from USB? At one school, kids hit F12 on
start-up, that gives them a boot menu, and they choose the USB stick.
At the other location, the IT staff changed the boot >order on all the
computers so the computers now look for the USB stick first, then the
hard drive. The later would probably be better with young kids.
+1.
>That said, your lab may or may not allow you to access your boot
order. We have run into a lot of home computers that do not allow
students to access boot order. Your IT people will obviously >have a
lot to say about how the sticks will be accessed.
>3. Sticks will fail at a high rate. As I mentioned in my first post,
we have about a 20% failure rate on our sticks every sessions.
Yesterday, one student had to try 3 sticks before we got one that
>would work. This means we always take a lot of back-ups. We have
been at this location for 7 weeks, one hour / week, and only one out
of 10 students was still using the same stick we gave him >on day one.
Most are on their second, and a few 3 or more. We were able to
figure out that one computer was the problem, not the sticks, so be
prepared to be methodical in tracking the sticks >and computers.
UUff, this is a big problem. Our initial hypotesis was to found that
computers produced more damaged sticks. Moreover, we find some
correlation between students anxious / usb failed / PC or netbook with
higher failure rate. The problem diminished some when we teach these
students the meaning of the flashing LED on the usb. If you had
blinked, you had to wait.
A critical moment for us was closing time. Allow sufficient time for
safe removal. There is a compression and decompression process that
must be completed to avoid damaging the USB Stick.
Cheers,
Pato Acevedo
SugarLabs Chile
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