Gardner Pilot Academy

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Gardner Pilot Academy - Boston Public Schools - Allston http://www.rabbitnet.net/gpa/

GPA is partnering with Solution Grove and Sugar Labs to pilot Sugar on a Stick.

Currently they have:

  • A computer lab with about 20 EVO D500 Pentium 4 computers running Windows 2000
  • 20 new Apple laptops (OSX, hardware details unknown)
  • Each teacher has a MacBook

There are two teachers in the school especially interested in starting with Sugar

  • 4th Grade teacher wants to do portfolios
  • Science Teacher wants to pilot with the 5th grade to support a new district mandate for writing in Science.

Status for the Computer Lab

Sugar on a Stick boots with the F9.9 Boot Helper CD!

However it does not see the network card and thus there is no internet connection. F11 boots and does see the network card. We didn't get to test that it actually connected to the internet.

Relevant Tickets:


Can't get Machines to Boot from USB - The BIOS says it should be trying to boot from the USB but its not looking at the USB. A google search confirms that this is not a sugar problem, its a EVO D500 problem. I'm hoping we find a solution.

If we don't we can work around in a few different ways.

  • A virtual machine that looks for student files and identity on the USB.
  • Boot Helper CD
  • Boot Helper Floppy - This is easier then a CD because the computer has to be turned on to open the CD Drawer and put in the CD then you have to turn it off again and reboot.
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