#1431 BLOC Trial-3: Enable recovery or installation from school server or anther laptop

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#1431: Enable recovery or installation from school server or anther laptop
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  Reporter:  jg           |       Owner:  wmb at firmworks.com
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned         
  Priority:  blocker      |   Milestone:  Trial-3          
 Component:  distro       |     Version:                   
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                   
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment (by wmb at firmworks.com):

 Replying to [comment:8 dwmw2]:
 > http:\\schoolserver\olpcnand.img isn't a URL. Please use forward slashes
 for this.

 The backslashes don't appear on the wire; in the HTTP GET request, they
 appear as forward slashes.  The backslashes appear only internally within
 OFW code, and in this case, the user will never see them.

 As I have stated many times, changing OFW to use forward slashes in the
 filename part of device specifiers is a wide-ranging and dangerous change
 that I am not willing to undertake.

 >
 > How much more work is needed in OF before we can do this over IPv6
 instead of IPv4?

 We are probably pretty close to being able to use IPv6 on a local network.
 We will have a preliminary version for testing within a few days.

 > And/or use the mesh instead of infrastructure mode?

 I don't know enough about the mesh to answer that one yet.

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