<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail-"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 14, 2017 3:26 PM, "Jerry Vonau" <<a href="mailto:jvonau3@gmail.com" target="_blank">jvonau3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail-m_-1625372717927076543quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:xx-large;display:inline"><font size="1">Does this still apply? "</font></div>On classical PC hardware, do turn off <a rel="nofollow" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface" class="gmail-m_-1625372717927076543m_3939196942930771070external gmail-m_-1625372717927076543m_3939196942930771070gmail-text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface" target="_blank">UEFI</a> in your PC/server's BIOS if possible<div style="font-size:xx-large;display:inline"><font size="1">".</font></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></span><div dir="auto">How should we rewrite this section?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(Tim, George & others can help if nec!)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Please review the lastest draft:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px">On classical PC hardware, follow the <b><a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Installation#do-everything-from-scratch" class="external gmail-text" title="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Installation#do-everything-from-scratch" rel="nofollow">"Do Everything from Scratch"</a></b> instructions. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record" class="external gmail-text" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record" rel="nofollow">MBR</a> was preferred in the past, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface" class="external gmail-text" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface" rel="nofollow">UEFI</a> can work (as set in your PC/server's BIOS) if your <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_OS_should_I_use.3F" title="">Linux distribution</a> supports that. Beware that <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Platforms#disk-partitioning" class="external gmail-text" title="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Platforms#disk-partitioning" rel="nofollow">partitioning is critical</a> particularly with distros like CentOS that attempt to allocate all extra/surplus space to <code>/home</code> by default (this won't work, as the most voluminous content will be placed in <code>/library</code>
instead!) Finally, avoid enabling LVM partitioning, especially if
you'll later be needing Clonezilla to duplicate the disk.</div></div><div> <br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#Is_a_quick_installation_possible.3F">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#Is_a_quick_installation_possible.3F</a><br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail-h5"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail-m_-1625372717927076543quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:xx-large;display:inline"><font size="1"> Wonder</font></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail-m_-1625372717927076543quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:xx-large;display:inline"><font size="1"> how many potential experimenters were turned off and went away by that restriction. <br></font></div><div style="font-size:xx-large;display:inline"><font size="1"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail-m_-1625372717927076543elided-text">On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-m_-1625372717927076543elided-text"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.3 is a big step forward allowing schools and clinics around the world to DIY their very own friendly digital libraries!<br></div><div><br>IIAB 6.3 (or very recent pre-releases) have already been brought to Ghana, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua and Malaysia -- while implementation work is currently ongoing for Lebanon and Guatemala.<br><br>We're very honored that IIAB 6.3 is increasingly used in medical education (post-secondary and clinical contexts) as well as for children's primary and secondary education.<br><br>Bonus: we kept our release
cycle < 3 months and can hopefully make that even tighter still in coming months -- picking up the pace with incremental improvement directly driven by "fieldback" requests -- from dedicated education communities on almost every continent.<br><br>Please see the Release Notes here, if you too want to build your own digital/community library:<br><br> <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.3-Release-Notes" target="_blank">https://github.com/iiab/iiab/w<wbr>iki/IIAB-<span class="gmail-m_-1625372717927076543m_3939196942930771070m_805842648722691111gmail-m_-1055616875989159598gmail-il">6.3</span>-Release-Notes</a></div></div></div></blockquote></span><div><br>FAQ #7 was just completely rewritten -- please see:<br><h2 style="margin-left:40px"><span class="gmail-m_-1625372717927076543m_3939196942930771070m_805842648722691111gmail-mw-headline">Is a quick installation possible? </span></h2><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#Is_a_quick_installation_possible.3F" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB<wbr>/FAQ#Is_a_quick_installation_p<wbr>ossible.3F</a><br></div><br></div><div>( <a href="http://FAQ.IIAB.IO" target="_blank">FAQ.IIAB.IO</a> is a great way to learn about Internet-in-a-Box in general...let us know where we can improve! )<br></div><span><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><i>Thanks all for your ongoing feedback as ~30 of us from the wider Internet-in-a-Box community meet mid-August in Montreal and Potsdam, NY for our <a href="http://OFF.NETWORK" target="_blank">http://OFF.NETWORK</a> Content Hackathon (in conjunction with Kiwix, Wikimedia & KA Lite / Learning Equality). To push this much further afield ~ ya ain't seen nothing yet! As new kinds of handheld community libraries quickly now blossom, that none of us 20th century folk ever imagined were even possible (-:<br clear="all"><br>--<br><div class="gmail-m_-1625372717927076543m_3939196942930771070m_805842648722691111gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div></div>
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