Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > How useful is this for a layperson to clone an XO's setup across a > school/classroom? > > Is this a replacement for http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Imaging_for_XO-1.5 ? All those paths are unsupported, and full of nasty surprises. Tell us a

Re: #11771 NORM 12.1.0: Browse and Firefox do not play ogg files

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Easthope
On 11/04/12 03:31 PM, Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: #11771: Browse and Firefox do not play ogg files Tested Browse on os884 on XO-1.75. * the page does load, and contains an embedded player widget, called OggPlayer.js, which shows a play button, Yes. I hadn't understood that. * clic

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:43 AM, James Cameron wrote: > Jerry could also write a startup script that does these actions All the startup (or shutdown) scripts I can think of that could return the filesystem to a pristine condition... they also undo customizations you may be wanting to retain. - n

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:56 AM, James Cameron wrote: > We found that erase commands sent to certain microSD cards would fail. > We removed the erase commands from the start of fs-update.  This would > have worked against you. Ouch! I hadn't realized we had removed the commands entirely. > You m

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 09:46 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > wrote: > > How useful is this for a layperson to clone an XO's setup across a > > school/classroom? > > > > Is this a replacement for http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Imaging_for_XO-1.5 ? >

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > My wish list has generate an image without an internet connection. I > just haven't had the chance to work through the details as this has not > been made a priority for me. I'm thinking that the gathering of the > activities and rpms could be

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
FYI. I apply extensive customizations to the builds I install. In my case, both the customization scripts and the packages-to-be-installed reside on the "permanent" SD card I place into each XO. But there is no reason why in your case they could not reside on a "non-permanent" USB stick use

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
Like Mikus, also FYI, I find olpc-os-builder entirely unwieldy for customising, and use a scripted approach applied to a pristine build. This is so that I can attach local engineering tests, missing programs that I find essential for testing and that aren't in the build (ntpdate, screen, pv, strac

Customisation using an unsecure bootable USB drive and runin

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
Mikus, here's something that might make your customisation a tiny bit easier ... Write a runin-main shell script that does your customisations. It will be executed on boot. Create a runin.tgz file on a USB drive that contains at minimum the runin-main script. It may contain other things too; th

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:36:15AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Sridhar - the changes (and the fix James proposes) apply to the > internal organization of the .zd files. So the fix willbe in the OOB > toolchain. Applied, #11776. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 09:46 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:36:15AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > Sridhar - the changes (and the fix James proposes) apply to the > > internal organization of the .zd files. So the fix willbe in the OOB > > toolchain. > > Applied, #11776

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 06:58:00PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 09:46 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:36:15AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > > Sridhar - the changes (and the fix James proposes) apply to the > > > internal organization of the .zd fi

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:31:44AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:43 AM, James Cameron wrote: > > Jerry could also write a startup script that does these actions > > All the startup (or shutdown) scripts I can think of that could return > the filesystem to a pristine co