[Fwd: Re: Peru Upgrade process]

2008-06-10 Thread Chris Marshall
Fixed mail server problem. This should go through. Apologies for dups. Original Message Subject:Re: Peru Upgrade process Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:54:14 -0400 From: Chris Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

Re: Peru Upgrade process.

2008-06-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:41 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As much as I dislike having multiple ways to do the same thing, Embrace the inner Perl programmer in you :-) > on > reflection it looks like touching up the autoreinstallation script is > probably going to be the Right

Re: Peru Upgrade process.

2008-06-08 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:18 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm also a little cranky because when we fought over this last time it Just to clarify, "cranky" does not mean I'm actually *mad* at any person or thing in particular. I understand that requirements change, we didn't h

Re: Peru Upgrade process.

2008-06-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:18 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm also a little cranky because when we fought over this last time it > was argued in elevated voices that we simply *couldn't* have any > system which required manually plugging a USB key into every machine, > because

Re: Peru Upgrade process.

2008-06-08 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't really know enough to comment correctly on this debate, but it > sure seems like the much-maligned USB autoreinstallation system meets all > the requirements. It is non-interactive, beyond requiring a reboot

Re: Peru Upgrade process.

2008-06-07 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't really know enough to comment correctly on this debate, but it sure seems like the much-maligned USB autoreinstallation system meets all the requirements. It is non-interactive, beyond requiring a reboot, and it preserves the user's data by co

Re: Peru Upgrade process.

2008-06-07 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 7, 2008, at 12:13 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:44 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Look, the reality on the ground is that Peru has at least 15K >> laptops in >> the field running 651/653/656 that need upgrading.They will >> not have

Re: Peru Upgrade process.

2008-06-07 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:44 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look, the reality on the ground is that Peru has at least 15K laptops in > the field running 651/653/656 that need upgrading.They will not have > school servers deployed for another three months. I understand this.

Re: Peru Upgrade process.

2008-06-07 Thread Walter Bender
> I don't know when that requirement got lost from the "plan of record". It was lost from the plan when Peru decided to deploy without servers. I believe we convinced them otherwise, but it seems that "reality" hasn't caught up with the plan. -walter __

Re: Peru Upgrade process.

2008-06-07 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 7, 2008, at 1:16 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As Wad discussed today, the new upgrade process is a step backwards >> from what we had before. Specifically, it will wipe activation keys >> and homedirs. >> >

Peru Upgrade process.

2008-06-06 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As Wad discussed today, the new upgrade process is a step backwards > from what we had before. Specifically, it will wipe activation keys > and homedirs. > > I am not sure how important people @ 1CC find this to be, but i