[OLPC-AU] Sugar on a Stick V4

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 25 November 2010 14:53, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.

It might be a good idea to log this as a bug with Sugar Labs:
http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a SoaS created on Windows to
be identical to one made on Linux.

As a workaround, you could create one stick in Fedora and then get it
mass-duplicated for all the NT teachers. This would be much more
cost-effective than having each teacher create their own. It also
gives you an opportunity to add your own customisations have have that
propagated to all of the sticks.

The last time I did this (for the Cairns and Alice Springs workshops),
it cost us about $10 per 2GB stick. That includes the cost of the
media, duplication of data and printing on the stick.


Sridhar