[K12OSN] Booting Acer One from SD card?

Peter Scheie peter at scheie.homedns.org
Fri Dec 5 16:02:13 UTC 2008



Rob Owens wrote:
> Peter Scheie wrote:
> 
>> My latest idea is to put the OS onto an SD card and boot the A1 from
>> that.  1GB SD cards are cheap, about $5, maybe less if you bought a
>> large quantity.  You could burn a bunch of these including extras, give
>> the extras to the teacher(s), so that if, when the kids grab the A1s for
>> whatever project, one says "This one's not booting", the teacher can
>> just pop in a new SD card.  This does have the problem of kids taking
>> the SD card, but it's easier to deal with than needing to have the A1 in
>> your possession to actually getting it working which would be the case
>> if the internal storage were used.
>>
> I tried it on my Acer Aspire One and it did not work.  The boot menu
> does not give the option to boot from the SD card, even when a bootable
> SD card is installed (I tried both SD slots).
> 
> How about booting from one of these tiny, cheap usb sticks:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609294
> 
> -Rob

Using the tiny USB stick is a very good idea.  I just got one from someone as a 
sample at LTSP BTS.  Didn't occur to me to try to use that.  And their pricing 
seems to be roughly the same as SD cards.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Peter




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