Re: [sugar] U3 flash drives

2008-10-11 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Anyone know much about U3 flash drives? Would this be the simplest (for the end user) way of booting a LiveUSB image of Sugar? (I worry about asking people to change their BIOS to enable USB boot as being too off-putting.)

Re: [sugar] U3 flash drives

2008-10-11 Thread Walter Bender
Much more common that bootable USB. Another possibility would be to keep the Journal on USB and everything else on the CD. -walter On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone

Re: [sugar] U3 flash drives

2008-10-11 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Much more common that bootable USB. Another possibility would be to keep the Journal on USB and everything else on the CD. Yeah, but since CD is *much* slower then USB, I'm not sure it's worth it. I'll prepare a

[sugar] U3 flash drives

2008-09-29 Thread Walter Bender
Anyone know much about U3 flash drives? Would this be the simplest (for the end user) way of booting a LiveUSB image of Sugar? (I worry about asking people to change their BIOS to enable USB boot as being too off-putting.) -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org

Re: [sugar] U3 flash drives

2008-09-29 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Bender wrote: | Anyone know much about U3 flash drives? Would this be the simplest | (for the end user) way of booting a LiveUSB image of Sugar? (I worry | about asking people to change their BIOS to enable USB boot as being | too off-putting.)

Re: [sugar] U3 flash drives

2008-09-29 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U3 is a Windows-only technology. I presume your question is: How can we create a usb key for Sugar that, when inserted into a Windows machine, launches a Sugar emulator with a minimum of user interaction? If so, I

Re: [sugar] U3 flash drives

2008-09-29 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Emulation requires very fast machines to be useful... XO images run acceptably fast for me in a VirtualBox on my T41 ThinkPad -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar