On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 08:51 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 06:08:05AM -0800, C.W. Holeman II wrote: > > I have : > > olpc-redhat-stream-development-devel_ext3.img > > which I am running with qemu. How do I ask it what version it is? > > Mount this filesystem, then read the file /boot/olpc_build > > This problem was probably contributed to by your downloading of the file > using a name that didn't have a version number. The build output tree > has files with version numbers as well, and they give you the same data. > So once you identify the build, you could rename the file. > > I don't know if there is a need for unversioned image files, but it is > probably too much trouble to argue this point.
This was done to allow a "latest" link that always grabbed the latest version, which is easiest done with a stable filename. Dan > The build output tree also now uses "osN.img" and "osN.crc" naming, for > the JFFS2 images, where N is the build number. > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
