Re: [Server-devel] Notes about XS on XO...

2009-01-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 21:00 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 21:43 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Just a question, would we be needing a do-it-yourself explanation of the steps involved, or are we just going

Re: [Server-devel] Notes about XS on XO...

2009-01-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 14:02 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: On the list of things to try, along with adding the bits needed to mkusbinstall for /boot/olpc.fth to boot from the usbdisk. More later, Well, that was sort of productive, the xs-05's kernel boot on the XO, but anaconda fails

Re: [Server-devel] Notes about XS on XO...

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 19:05 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: OK lets backup a second, I'm thinking that the OS could be on a SD disk/NAND with an external USB harddrive holding most of the write intensive directories. thoughts? My plan is to use a high quality SD card, not NAND (jffs2

Re: [Server-devel] Notes about XS on XO...

2009-01-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Just a question, would we be needing a do-it-yourself explanation of the steps involved, or are we just going to distribute an image that you could write to a partition? Both? I'd say both ;-) I have a XO using a 4gig SD

[Server-devel] Notes about XS on XO...

2009-01-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
Jerry prompted me to think about what's interesting to hack on around running XS on the XO... these are somewhat rambling notes... - memory management around presence (ejabberd...) and the other memory hogs is a good idea. I did some mem management tricks in the apache and pg config files (with

Re: [Server-devel] Notes about XS on XO...

2009-01-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Now things get interesting, /library could be setup as a broken mirror, one half of a raid 1 set... plug second drive in, add to mirror, replicate If you in the the past have seen DMC's live installer discussed on the fedora