Re (2): XO-1.5 build 885 no space in journal

John Watlington wad at laptop.org
Tue Jun 11 23:26:48 EDT 2013


On Jun 11, 2013, at 11:17 PM, peasthope at shaw.ca wrote:

> From:	James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> Date:	Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:54:36 +1000
>> Yes, another option is to buy 4 GB or 8 GB microSD cards and open each
>> laptop to install them.  But there's a small risk of them not working
>> with the firmware ... we made sure the ones we used in manufacturing
>> did work.
> 
> Some very economical offerings of flash storage are available on eBay, 
> with delivery to your mailbox.  If you find a promising choice, buy a 
> minimal order and test.  If it works buy more.  If it doesn't work, the 
> loss is small.

Absolutely agreed, but as the SD card is the primary storage and schools
were worried about kids removing them, it takes sixteen screws to upgrade.

Remove the Spanish Wikipedia immediately (I had to do it to run SD tests on
that model).  The non-sugar UI also consumes space...

wad



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