Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade many machines

2014-01-09 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 02:40:31PM -0500, Adam Gordon wrote: The problem is usb key supply. Is there any way to update firmware without them? Sure. But it is not a good way. It is complex and time consuming, with higher possibility of error, and doesn't scale up. You don't say what the

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade many machines

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 2:06 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Summary: use a few USB drives or NANDblaster, not the server. Note that if preserving user data and apps is desired, USB drives / NANDBlaster isn't that good. Any reason you are not mentioning the olpc-update path? m --

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade many machines

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:33 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: No reason, thanks for reminding me. I guess xs-rsync on the local server? yep - oatslite to send the upgrade msg - XOs need to be registered - xs-rsync to host the new img There are several possible gotchas I have not

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

2014-01-09 Thread Anish Mangal
Sorry for being late to the party. Clearly the quest for data is a commonly shared one, with many different approaches, questions, and reporting/results. One of the already mentioned solutions is the sugar-stats package, originally developed by Aleksey, which have now been part of dextrose-sugar

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade many machines

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:33 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: No reason, thanks for reminding me. I guess xs-rsync on the local server? yep - oatslite to send the upgrade msg - XOs need to be registered - xs-rsync to host the new img There are several possible gotchas I have not

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Upgraded VirtualBox XSCE 0.4 in my Google Drive to 0.5

2014-01-09 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 06:34:38PM -0800, Curt Thompson wrote: I have this set up now in appliance mode, considering people may want to try it out without running a dhcp server and possibly breaking their network(s). Does this really happen? Wouldn't it be better to fix XSCE so that the DHCP

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

2014-01-09 Thread Anish Mangal
Sorry for being late to the party. Clearly the quest for data is a commonly shared one, with many different approaches, questions, and reporting/results. One of the already mentioned solutions is the sugar-stats package, originally developed by Aleksey, which have now been part of dextrose-sugar