Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-17 Thread Kevin Gordon
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Kevin Gordon > wrote: > > > > Jerry, James and Martin: > > > > Adam and I thank you all ... a lot We are now 100% operational using 1 > USB > > stick to update all versions of XO. We will add some more exce

Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Kevin Gordon wrote: > > Jerry, James and Martin: > > Adam and I thank you all ... a lot  We are now 100% operational using 1 USB > stick to update all versions of XO.  We will add some more exception > handling and 1.75 specifics to the procedures once we return to

Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-17 Thread Kevin Gordon
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Building upon Jerry's message, you may be interested in our One > Education USB (formerly called XO-AU USB): > > https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au-usb/ > > The idea is to have a single USB stick with many tools that may be > neede

Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Building upon Jerry's message, you may be interested in our One Education USB (formerly called XO-AU USB): https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au-usb/ The idea is to have a single USB stick with many tools that may be needed in the field. It is designed for use by (non-technical) teachers to ma

Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-13 Thread Kevin Gordon
Jerry, James and Martin: Adam and I thank you all ... a lot We are now 100% operational using 1 USB stick to update all versions of XO. We will add some more exception handling and 1.75 specifics to the procedures once we return to Canada, but the combination of OOB 4.1 and the olpc.fth boot are

Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-12 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:08:29AM -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: > Disclaimer: Newbie Forth question :-) Always welcome. > We are trying to create a consolidated unsecured update stick. I worked on a secured update drive last week, so the techniques are on my mind. > [...] > So for those comi

Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 11:08 -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: > Disclaimer: Newbie Forth question :-) > > We are trying to create a consolidated unsecured update stick. > > This is not for use in the real world, but in our wild lab. > > We have learned and experimented a lot today, and everything

olpc.fth question

2012-06-12 Thread Kevin Gordon
Disclaimer: Newbie Forth question :-) We are trying to create a consolidated unsecured update stick. This is not for use in the real world, but in our wild lab. We have learned and experimented a lot today, and everything pretty much humming along nicely, to a point: We have borrowed oodle