Sugar on a Stick/sdm
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Goal
Enable autodetection of SoaS flash drives on SoaS-helper machines. (SoaS-helper was described in detail in this blog post)
Ideally, the Soas Desktop Manager should:
- Start on boot when a -helper machine loads
- Provide a helpful and simple user interface
- Detect all versions of SoaS drives and update them if outdated
- Handle failures gracefully
- Prepare the system enviornment to allow the user to continue where they left off
Detection tools
Since we lack a better heuristic, we will attempt to use the following criteria for our definition of a SoaS disk:
- The device is a removable media, such as SD, USB-flash, or MMC
- The device is FAT formatted
- The device contains a magic-file (to-be-determined) which identifies it as a SoaS disk
Unfortunately, this requires us to mount each candidate disk inserted into the computer, which slows reaction time.