[OLPC-AU] Sugar on a Stick V4

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:18:01PM -0800, IanCunningham wrote:
> The new NT teacher laptops, DELL E6410, will not run Sugar on a stick
> v2.
> If Sugar on a stick v4 is built on a Fedora 13 computer using FAT32,
> it works on the DELL E6410.
> If Sugar on a stick v4 is built on a E6410 running Windows 7 or a
> Compaq D51S running XP, it doesn't.
> Can anyone shed some light on this anomaly?

Yes.  Perhaps the BIOS is picky about exactly what is present on the
USB drive, and the other operating systems have prepared the drive
slightly different.

This might be tested for by imaging the working and non-working drive
content, and comparing the format and metadata.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/