[Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO
Very rough install CD. It has the packages, but you'll have to install them by hand - It will be here in about 1hr (transfer from NZ takes its time...) http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/Fedora-0.5dev-i386-DVD.iso The md5sum is b8c77b26bef11391ab5b55ce55ffe653 cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll write up some details as soon as I can, and announce it on the OLPC artwork wiki too. *Fantastic*. After seeing your logo, I started thinking of where would we put a logo - a quick rundown of the spots I think we'll have one... - sticker on the case of my test XSs :-) - grub background at boot time during install and normal boots - installer splash screen (if I fail in my quest to remove the graphical anaconda 8-) ) - logo on web-based tools - we'll be using initially moodle and mediawiki as the 'face' of the XS, so a small, easily identifiable logo will be good. Will need the little url bar icon. Edges/shadows with gaussian blur discouraged as it'll be hard to blend on CSS-based themes... :-) any others? m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very rough install CD. It has the packages, but you'll have to install them by hand - It will be here in about 1hr (transfer from NZ takes its time...) http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/Fedora-0.5dev-i386-DVD.iso The md5sum is b8c77b26bef11391ab5b55ce55ffe653 The transfer finished, and just in time I have a kickstart file that gets it to install xs-config, xs-pkgs and all the appropriate dependencies. See: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-livecd;a=blob;f=kickstarts/anaconda-f9.ks;h=dfd4eabc417bb09b0bc5bcabce94dd22c1c5212e;hb=HEAD I am using Jerry's mkusbinstall script, and copying the ks file to the root of the USB drive. To get anaconda to read it you have to pass ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg to the kernel. Good news: The network is configured correctly - defautls to server 1 - a Bad news: - idmgr dies with an sqlalchemy error - xs-config has errors in %postinst Tomorrow, - fiddle with pungi to the kickstart included in the initrd and to add grub options - fix xs-config, idmgr cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very rough install CD. It has the packages, but you'll have to install them by hand - It will be here in about 1hr (transfer from NZ takes its time...) http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/Fedora-0.5dev-i386-DVD.iso The md5sum is b8c77b26bef11391ab5b55ce55ffe653 The transfer finished, and just in time I have a kickstart file that gets it to install xs-config, xs-pkgs and all the appropriate dependencies. See: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-livecd;a=blob;f=kickstarts/anaconda-f9.ks;h=dfd4eabc417bb09b0bc5bcabce94dd22c1c5212e;hb=HEAD I am using Jerry's mkusbinstall script, and copying the ks file to the root of the USB drive. To get anaconda to read it you have to pass ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg to the kernel. edit the boot-loader's cfg file and append that as an argument. Good news: The network is configured correctly - defautls to server 1 - a cool. work pays off. Bad news: - idmgr dies with an sqlalchemy error - xs-config has errors in %postinst Tomorrow, - fiddle with pungi to the kickstart included in the initrd and to add grub options ok, initrd works, but lets debug it from the usbkey for now, for the %post stuff, edits are much easier.. ;-) note: anaconda may fail to find the ks file on the usbkey the first time, usb still coming up.. just hit enter, should work the second time, nobody is using a serial console yet, right? - fix xs-config, idmgr cheers, Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO
Martin Langhoff wrote: Bad news: - idmgr dies with an sqlalchemy error - xs-config has errors in %postinst Tomorrow, - fiddle with pungi to the kickstart included in the initrd and to add grub options - fix xs-config, idmgr In an unrelated goose chase, I removed sqlalchemy from idmgr today. Not tested yet though. douglas ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Douglas Bagnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - fix xs-config, idmgr In an unrelated goose chase, I removed sqlalchemy from idmgr today. Not tested yet though. timely! I was wondering whether this was the right alibi .to chop chop chop!.. :-) m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] offline moodle
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 22:57 +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, My apologies - I need to do some research on how to setup the repo.or.cz. As an immediate expedient, I have attached the relevant files to this email. When I get a little time, I will set this up properly. The readme tries to describe the files and how they are used. hey Tony, this is a good start. I have a somewhat different workflow in mind. Here is a narrative that describes what I am thinking User Story 1: Intermittent School attendance and School Server Outage Monday 1. Kid goes to class 2. Teacher directs kids Moodle site 3. Kid navigates to Moodle Module for Class 2 math for the current month 4. Kid clicks 'download' link next Moodle module 5. This action downloads a the moodle module as a .xo bundle and locally installs it to the XO 5.1 Inside the module are readings, pictures, animations, etc. all available offline 6. School ends on Monday Tuesday Kid can't go to school. Mom and little brother are sick, has to take care of them. Kid opens up XO and offline Moodle activity he downloaded the day before. He does lessons that show him basic concepts, introduce him to basic animations using activities like Etoys, and reads explanations that answer some of the things he doesn't understand. Wednesday Kid still can't go to school. Has to help out in the fields. Later that day the kid spends some time w/ the Moodle module Thursday Kid goes back to school. Kid isn't behind the other because he followed the lesson plan at home. This has social importance that shouldn't be understated. Over night there was an electrical surge that fried the school server. The teacher can still instruct using the XO because she has it installed locally as an activity and so do the kids. The key here is that we need to package each offline moodle course as an .XO Activity Bundle. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles Getting started, we only need the most basic features of Moodle. Basically page navigation and the ability to display flash animations and embedded pdfs for the supplementary readings. In time we can look at adding more dynamic stuff like access to the gradebook but that can wait. In Nepal's context, our kids have no libraries and maybe 4 small coursebooks. Hope this helps and sorry I haven't been able to provide you w/ more feedback earlier. Pls post our correspondence regarding Offline Moodle to the Server-Developers mailing list. http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- Bryan W. Berry Systems Engineer OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] new package: xs-activation
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:18:31AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: A couple of notes related to it. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith Can you put this feature on the roadmap: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Roadmap It's already there - we're using Trac's status overview searches, have a look :-) What happens is that - paraphrasing your email... someone prepping XOs before distribution to the field opens XO and turns it on. That is all they have to do. Who is the lead customer for this feature? Peru, Ethiopia. They've been asking for it, we discussed this in the last 2 phone meetings :-) It would be be immediately practical in a warehouse setting, where managing a key with a bunch of activation leases is a pain. Now to get wireless installation/upgrade ready for use in the warehouses... all we need is a signed 'nandcast' boot image. Erik ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] offline moodle
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I have several questions, how many courses would offline moodle cache locally? And how could a kid dump one course they took offline but keep others? To browse to a cached course would gears have to cache all the pages on the way to cached course? Or for the kid to bookmark the cached course and use it to access it later? I don't have all the answers for that - but your questions are good - that's the kind of workflow that users would have to use. I hope that the GG code can show a basic moodle homepage with a course listing that shows the cached courses in a distinctive manner. I think a bookmark wouldn't be very intuitive. AIUI, the user only has to get to the initial moodle page, and GG should take care of the rest. I'm not saying that this is what Tony's implemented -- I'll review the code asap -- but that's the kind of workflow that GG seems to support, and it looks good to me. Sure, but my focus is making it easy for the kids to easily view multiple courses offline. I am only interested in Offline Moodle insofar as it supports that goal. What other goal could possibly offline moodle have? ;-) we're all on the same page wrt that. m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] offline moodle
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:10 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: good to hear we're on the same page. AIUI, the user only has to get to the initial moodle page, and GG should take care of the rest. you've reached beyond my geek lingo, what on earth does AIUI mean? :) -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
