On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:51 PM, John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The removal of activities seems to be happening under the assumption > that people will use a USB memory stick to upgrade their laptops. Was > it only a few months ago that I was told, "Skip the USB install notes, > all the updating is going to happen via olpc-update from now on"? Now > the story is "Countries can install unsupported activities on each > machine using a USB key: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_key";. > (which unhelpfully wipes out the entire machine, including their > entire home directory, all saved work, their Journal, their activation > lease and their developer key if any). > > Am I confused?
I think so. Initial installation is by USB stick. Upgrade via olpc-update will work fine, but you'll have to use the customization key (without the four-button erase-everything step) or other mechanism (download, unzip) to install the activities. The customization key doesn't have to erase the flash. I'll try to document this better. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
