On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Victoria Blackaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've spoken a few times on the IRC chat line. I'm Victoria from Chicago, > trying to deploy XO's for a tutoring center. I've spoken with you and Mitch > about using a fedora base with fvwm to handle our tutoring section, and then > giving the students a chance to switch between xfce and sugar, which was, as > I was lead to understand, in the works. ;) > > So... now.. we have 300 XO's, and they are sitting in my office, and I am > attempting to follow your instructions of packaging everything I need in an > RPM and installing them on the machines. This was to prevent the > developer-key issue, the unlocking the machines issue, the signed image > issue, and like four other issues I don't remember. > > The only thing is, there laptops are build 656, so if I understand right, I > will need to upgrade them to a later build in order for the switcher and > other programs to work, then install my RPM that adds the functionality I > need. This then becomes a multi-step procedure for me, flashing the new > images, installing my deployment changes, and then, installing the individual > student's curriculum on the machines. > > In talking to Lfaraone in chat, he suggested that I just get a signed build. > However, when I first asked about a signed build in April I was told there > weren't enough time or resources to sign a build for me,and that I should go > the RPM route. > > Can you please advise me on how to proceed?
Reflashing the machines to 8.2 would probably be the best way to start. That takes time; there are multicast mechanisms which can be used but they tend to be very tricky to set up. Maybe someone on devel@ can give you better guidance on that. Otherwise, making 10 or so USB keys and flashing in parallel is not *too* painful. Instead of XFCE, I'd recommend using the Fedora build for the XO. You will need developer keys. You should probably begin by creating a collection key using the instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys and collecting serial numbers and UUIDs from all 300 machines and submitting that to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get a developer key file for all 300 machines. XFCE was a experiment, it's not officially supported. The Fedora community is going to support the Fedora/XO port; they should be able to help you customize it for you use. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
