Old bundle update method
Folks: Back in the old days, when velociraptors roamed the Earth, and build 802 ruled the XO1 environment, there was a neat little customization that one could put on a USB stick that enabled one to install a bunch of activities just by booting with the customized USB stick installed. The technique we used was to have a 'boot' directory off the root that contained two files actos.zip, and runos.zip. Also one would have a directory off the root named 'bundles' which contained all of the desired '.xo' files. Last, there was little file in the root called 'configuration-2'. I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the activity install does not seem to run. Could it be that a) I need different versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique is no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't work on machines with security disabled) Or, maybe all three. Cheers KG ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Old bundle update method
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Back in the old days, when velociraptors roamed the Earth, and build 802 ruled the XO1 environment, there was a neat little customization that one Hey! I remember back then! Got a few bite-marks from a velociraptor attack. Support is still there for customization sticks (specifically, the 'bundles' dir), dsd ported the code to the new dracut infrastructure. See http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/dracut-modules-olpc/tree/30olpc-customization/unpack.py#n112 I don't know how much testing it got, so it may be broken. But now you can see the code and ensure you have the right bits in the right places... Boot with prettyboot disabled to see any error msgs... m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Old bundle update method
On 28 February 2011 15:20, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the activity install does not seem to run. Could it be that a) I need different versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique is no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't work on machines with security disabled) Or, maybe all three. Take a read of the wiki page, especially the note about security: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick It should still be working. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Old bundle update method
Thanks! O, you mean that section boldly typed in red! How could I be expected to read that? :-) I will run it through the hoops on 860. Since there seems to be some code which plugs 'jffs2' in what ML sent me, should I still try with OS11? KG On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 28 February 2011 15:20, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the activity install does not seem to run. Could it be that a) I need different versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique is no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't work on machines with security disabled) Or, maybe all three. Take a read of the wiki page, especially the note about security: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick It should still be working. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Old bundle update method
On 28 February 2011 16:38, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: I will run it through the hoops on 860. Since there seems to be some code which plugs 'jffs2' in what ML sent me, should I still try with OS11? The XO-1 customization stick won't work on 11.2.0. Not sure if I'm going to fix this yet (in light of olpc-os-builder providing a better path for customizations). The XO-1.5 one probably still works. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Old bundle update method
Gents: Yes the bundle customization boot works exactly as advertised. As long as one remembers that the 'boot with x key' means the game 'x key' and not the escape 'x key'. :-) Thanks everyone. KG On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 28 February 2011 16:38, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: I will run it through the hoops on 860. Since there seems to be some code which plugs 'jffs2' in what ML sent me, should I still try with OS11? The XO-1 customization stick won't work on 11.2.0. Not sure if I'm going to fix this yet (in light of olpc-os-builder providing a better path for customizations). The XO-1.5 one probably still works. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
