> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:08:27 -0500 > Subject: Re: [SoaS] Very Urgent! Still need SoaS Help! > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi.... > > Besides needing to be able to use SoaS at the "Try-It" Lab at SCaLE 8X, I > > now will also need it next Monday, Jan 25th, to take to an elementary school > > in Buenos Aires! They have a PC lab that is grossly underused and we are > > hoping we can get SoaS to work on their machines. All they have now is MS > > Office... for an elementary school. The teachers don't like it. > > :) > > > Fortunately, I will have access to several PCs while stopping over in the > > Dallas area to visit our son and family before going to Argentina on Friday. > > Now... my most urgent question... logically, the answer should be yes. > > Will this scenerio work: > > Short answer: No. :-( > > > I download SoaS Blueberry on my son's PC to a usb stick. I check it to make > > sure it works. Then if it is a viable copy, I clone the usb stick directly > > to another one plugged in to the same PC without having to go through the > > long download again. The folks in Argentina (and at SCaLE 8X) can also make > > clones quickly using these viable copies. > > The problem is that the user data is on initialization and will get > copied each time. You can change the user name and colors in the > control panel, but not the public keys generated on first boot. These > would have to be deleted by hand. What would happen if I just took faith that the download was good and cloned it before initializing? Is the user data specific to a particular machine? > > > Will this work? Any caveats? Should I also take a copy of Strawberry? > > Would Strawberry work better if the machines are older? What is the oldest > > model of PC these will work on? > > Another approach is to copy the Blueberry image locally and then use > the LiveUSB tool to make copies. This is not much more time-consuming > that making replications as per your plan as stated above, but doesn't > require any magic. Is the LiveUSB tool a PC thing? Is it something that exists on all PCs or do I have to take it with me too. If so, does it require another usb stick? Sorry for the simplistic questions, but I'm a Mac person and that is a whole different world! Thanks again... Caryl> > > We leave tomorrow morning! > > Caryl > > _______________________________________________ > > SoaS mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > > > > > regards. > > -walter > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org
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