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

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#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):

 Current releases of OFW (q2c20 and later) support copy-nand from http.

 We can add an OFW feature whereby, if the user holds down a particular
 game key, OFW will do a copy-nand from a default URL, e.g.
 http:\\schoolserver\olpcnand.img

 The schoolserver will need to respond to DHCP requests, supplying a client
 IP address and a nameserver IP address.  The nameserver will need to
 resolve the name "schoolserver" with the IP address of a web server that
 contains the file "olpcnand.img".

 The final issue is the wireless SSID.  OFW currently has a built-in
 default SSID of "OLPCOFW".  We can either make the schoolserver respond to
 that SSID, or add something in the manufacturing data that tells OFW the
 SSID of the schoolserver that it is assigned to, or invent some search
 heuristic for choosing an SSID from the access points that are available.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1431#comment:7>
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