Nand blaster with 30 XOs

[Erik Garrison]

Please see: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-January/022334.html

I hope that is enough to get started.  I don't know if the best place
to continue discussion is in this thread or that.  In any case I will
be happy to help.  The thread already has some good commentaries
analyzing the results, so perhaps we should continue there.

Best,
Erik

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ricardo Carrano <carrano at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
>>  > Just one XO froze (two times), but this unit seems problematic anyway.
>>  > I am attaching the stats for the other 28.
>>  >
>>  > There is a minor caveat (that is not actually related to the
>>  > nandblaster): Once you finish updating the XO that will be replicated
>>  > it woud be useful to put it in a state such that the XO-name and color
>>  > will be asked again after boot (otherwise you finsh with a lot of xos
>>  > with the same name and color). It is probably a matter of removing a
>>  > file.
>>
>> if you've booted the XO, there's more than that that's been
>> cloned which might be a problem.  (ssh host key, for example.)
>> you should really nandblast images that haven't been booted.
>> (erikg:  did you finish your audit of what exactly gets changed?)
>>
>
> True. I was so anxious to use the method that I didn't pay much
> attention to that.
> But If we don't boot the XO  before the copying we'll lost the
> opportunity to add some stuff.
> If erikg has such a list, and we can revert some things, that would be awesome!
>
> Cheers!
> Ricardo
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