On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 07:51 +1200, David Leeming wrote: > > OK thanks. Actually we now have learned to boot direct off > > the flash drive with most machines here and the local team > > are sure that they can easily advise the teachers on the > > remote islands to make the minor change BIOS settings. > > It works splendidly! > > Great. Is this done using the original SoaS, or the modified one with > the ext3 filesystem directly on the primary partition? > > The original SoaS Blueberry filesystem layout has an unsolved problem: > if you write enough data to fill up the reserved overlay space, the > system will crash and the stuck will become unbootable. > > Besides the potential data loss, I think we shouldn't encourage end > users to use this layout for production, as it's also slower and may > wear the stick faster. > > The easiest solution, is installing SoaS to the flash drive. Besides my > complicated procedure, they told me that ZyX liveinstaller does a good > job, and it's already bundled with Blueberry. > You can also use the upstream liveinst to install to a usb drive. You need a second stick (or a real liveCD) so that you boot the live image off one and install to the other. I've done it before and it works well. Peter
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