Awesome, thanks Supat I will try downloading it soon. Do you make a new LiveCD for each new build?
What's the status of OLPC Thailand? On 2/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I made LiveCD OLPC to work correctly under OLPC since July 2006. Ofcause ALL thing including Marvell Wireless and audio work correctly. It was also support mozilla, flash, mplayer, Open Office, Matvec, etc. It was done under slackware basis. You can d/l them at: http://supat.eu.org/OLPC/olpc_livecd.iso http://supat.eu.org/OLPC/olpc.tgz good luck, supat Associate Professor, Kasetsart Univ. Thailand On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Bryan Berry wrote: > Manish, great job > > Let us know when you get the LiveCD booting. Also, have you gotten a chance > to look at the Pilgrim code? > I'll try to play around w/ this tonight. > > It would be great if we could get Pilgrim to successfully build LiveCDs. > That way we would could hand out LiveCDs to Windows and Mac geeks, and even > *gasp* non-technical people. Of course there are some Mac geeks out there > who know how to use Parallels :) but I imagine they are in the minority. > > I thought I tried the "-soundhw all" and "-soundhw" parameters each and it > didn't work for me. > > Manish, were you able to hear audio output? Now we need to test audio input > into vm instance, particularly dual audio inputs. I would love to somehow > test audioconferencing b/w two vm instances on the same machine. Not sure > how to best do that. > > > > > On 1/30/07, Manish Regmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> Here is how we can make Bootable CD of olpc image. >> >> 1) Get the lastest ext2 image from laptop.org (or from bryan :) ). >> 2) It is merely an image of the MBR partitioned Disk (CMIIMW here). to >> view the partitions contained in it type: >> # fdisk -lu olpc.img >> >> You will see something like this: >> >> You must set cylinders. >> You can do this from the extra functions menu. >> >> Disk olpc.img: 0 MB, 0 bytes >> 16 heads, 62 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, total 0 sectors >> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> olpc.img1 62 985055 492497 83 Linux >> >> It means that disk image has just 1 partition >> >> 3) Setup the loopback device for that partition using the following >> command: >> # sudo losetup /dev/loop0 olpc.img -o $((62 * 512)) >> (note: 62 in above command which means partition 1 starts at sector >> no 62) >> >> 4) Mount the loopback device. >> # sudo mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/tmp >> >> 5) Now the partition is mounted in /mnt/tmp. Copy everything to a >> temporary location you can edit few things to make it bootable CDROM. >> >> # mkdir ~/olpccd >> # cp -rv /mnt/olpccd/* ~/olpccd >> >> 6) To boot the CD using grub we will need "stage2_eltorito" file. Copy it >> from your system to olpc grub folder. >> # cp /lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito ~/olpccd/boot/grub/ >> >> (Note: it was in /lib/grub path in my ubuntu 6.10. >> It might be at other place or not installed at all in your system. >> >> The command "where grub" will give you hint. usually /lib or >> /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib. >> ) >> >> 7) You may also need to rename grub.conf to menu.lst. Also change the >> grub.conf/menu.lst so that it can load the kernel from cd. >> change "(hd0,x)" to "(cd)" >> also write give the path of kernel image not the symlink ( >> /boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.19xxxx not just /boot/vmlinuz) >> >> 8) Now create the iso image >> # mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot >> -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o olpccd.iso ~/olpccd >> >> 9) boot it and enjoy. >> >> >> >> >> After booting dont get angry. Because the above thing is not supposed to >> not load the root fs. For that we need to setup ramdisk and write a small >> program or shell script to get livecd booting. >> I am sleepy and tired for to day and will try that tomorrow. :) >> >> >> -- >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> Manish Regmi >> OLPC Nepal >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "dev-olpcnepal" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/dev-olpcnepal?hl=en >> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- >> >> >
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