[Server-devel] XS 0.6 on SD card

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Rodolfo D. Arce
S.<rodolfoarce at eyuhoo.com> wrote:
> WOW!!! that sounds like fun.. but..
> try running registration.. or backup.. is gonna eat the space very
> fast.. be carefull with the proxy and jabber too.. they use a lot of
> resource
>

space wise, I'm using a 8GB card (class 4 is all I could find at the
time, but class 6 would probably be better), so that isn't a problem,
but RAM wise it will be close. Maybe I should do a swap partition on
the SD.

> i don't think the XS was designed with low resources in mind.. but we
> could hack it a little bit
>

I'll run a few things and see what the resource footprint looks
like...later tonight.

> does mesh work? for internet conection?
>

Yes. Works nicely.

Sameer
> cheers.. R
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> I finally managed to find enough time to install the xs on a SD card
>> and boot an XO from it. I am impressed! It took a bit longer to go
>> through the first boot (I presume its because of the SD card) but
>> after running network_config and domain_config, I rebooted and it ran
>> without a hitch. I hooked up a usb-to-ethernet adapter for the
>> backhaul. The mesh node services the XOs. Also ran yum
>> --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing update and it had no problems there
>> either.
>>
>> I haven't done extensive testing, but will do so and post some more
>> details soon.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>> --
>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor of Information Systems
>> San Francisco State University
>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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