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Originally Posted by ksanger
As a side note I've been on two teams now. The first team was behind a business firewall. The current team operates within a school system. Neither enable us to go out to the internet and verify OS's, or product keys, or updates. We can download files and sneaker net them over. But registrations do not work. As I'm doing this from home my students are not available so we can teach them too. Perhaps its best as I've had it for tonight.
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This is a very common problem that needs to be addressed. I've spent many hours at home with the Classmate and school's laptop doing exactly that over the past few years. All time that is taken away from actually working on the robot.
It's also tiring to have to search all over for pieces of a puzzle - updates here, patches there, kinex programs another place, and don't get them in the wrong order. I realize the distribution is prepared far in advance, but couldn't there be one official place to go with one step-by-step setup and all files downloaded from one place?
{edit} Actually, what Mark has provided is the best I've seen. His post should be made sticky or something so everyone will see it.{/edit}
This year is incrementally better than past years, but I'm still developing a callous from banging my head on the wall...