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

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

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 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 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: 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: [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: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:43:02PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > We do not have a program available at the moment for the reverse of > fs-copy, Sorry, fs-save. fs-copy was a name used in early development but it was changed to fs-save. The reverse, if written, would be fs-restore. -- James Cam

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:10:16PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 9 April 2012 13:25, James Cameron wrote: > > - add new fs-save command [1] for preparing an image copy of internal > > ?storage, > > > > [1] ?http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d09/fs-save > > How useful is this for a

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 9 April 2012 13:25, James Cameron wrote: > - add new fs-save command [1] for preparing an image copy of internal >  storage, > > [1]  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d09/fs-save How useful is this for a layperson to clone an XO's setup across a school/classroom? Is this a replacemen

Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-08 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3c05 - fix ext2 filesystem access failure, a regression introduced in q3c series, impacted mass production runin test setup. - add new fs-save command [1] for preparing an image copy of internal storage, [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4