On 8 February 2011 08:39, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 01:01:36AM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>> Are OS images checked for integrity by the XO before they are written
>> to the flash storage? I suspect not.
>
> As Chris said, yes.
>
> The image is checked for transmission in
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 01:01:36AM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> Are OS images checked for integrity by the XO before they are written
> to the flash storage? I suspect not.
As Chris said, yes.
The image is checked for transmission integrity *as* it is written to
the flash storage [1], not b
Hi,
> Are OS images checked for integrity by the XO before they are
> written to the flash storage? I suspect not.
Yes.
- Chris.
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Are OS images checked for integrity by the XO before they are written
to the flash storage? I suspect not.
The schools we deal with don't always have reliable Internet, so some
failsafe mechanism to prevent them from using damaged images would be
helpful. We can't expect them to learn md5sum to ch
