my Sculpt Early Adopters experiences

[Guido Witmond]

Hi Genodians,

Last week I've played with the Sculpt EA system. It looks great. And 
with the new booting code, it runs on my hardware.

It boots on my old Gigabyte H67MA-USB3-B3 mobo with a Pentium G620 
processor and 16 GB RAM. I didn't connect any Sata disks yet. Built-in 
Intel video to VGA and DVI-D display. No RS232 output, regrettably.
(Another box, a DELL optiplex 360 PC, does do RS232 after grub but lacks 
recognised display adapter and reboots).


My experiences:

Things that work:
- booting, OK;
- Leitzentrale OK;
- Disk, network and debug log OK;
- live reconfiguration of display from VGA to DVI OK;
- wired network config OK; however the system does not respond to ping;
- Deploy backdrop OK, 2048 game OK, noux OK.

After that I had some less luck.

- Some downloads seem to hang. It could either be out of RAM (config), 
or a lost packet that is not detected.
   I'm using the RAM-disk that gets to 64MB in size. (I remember, but 
could not reproduce) it going to 128MB

- Expanding the GENODE-partition on the USB-stick makes it unbootable. 
The system can't find and start Grub anymore. This happened repeatable 
both with a Kingston 8GB USB2 stick as well as with a Sandisk 32GB USB3 
stick.

I haven't been able to test the virtual machine with debian payload due 
to the download errors.

Questions:
- is there a way to send the debug log via ethernet?
- did I miss some configuration settings that made the downloads get stuck?


Cheers, Guido.