Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > > > 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?
What do you mean exactly by "cloning"? I'm asking because depending on how you do it, it might or might not work. > > > 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! Couldn't you just download the .iso once and put it - as a file (!) - on a USB key, a CD, no matter where. When you want to create a new key with it, you just use the LiveUSB Creator from here [1]. Then you can just specify the .iso file you brought along and have it put on a new key. There's no need to download it over and over again. --Sebastian [1] https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator > 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 > = > > > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
