Here's an old thread of a convo I had in Feb. Maybe it will help? Message: 5 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:20:59 -0500 From: Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> Subject: Old bundle update method To: OLPC Development <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Folks: Back in the old days, when velociraptors roamed the Earth, and build 802 ruled the XO1 environment, there was a neat little customization that one could put on a USB stick that enabled one to install a bunch of activities just by booting with the customized USB stick installed. The technique we used was to have a 'boot' directory off the root that contained two files actos.zip, and runos.zip. Also one would have a directory off the root named 'bundles' which contained all of the desired '.xo' files. Last, there was little file in the root called 'configuration-2'. I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the activity install does not seem to run. Could it be that a) I need different versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique is no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't work on machines with security disabled) Or, maybe all three. Cheers KG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20110228/c7b2c961/attachment.html ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:01:08 -0500 From: Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Old bundle update method To: Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> Cc: OLPC Development <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Back in the old days, when velociraptors roamed the Earth, and build 802 > ruled the XO1 environment, there was a neat little customization that one Hey! I remember back then! Got a few bite-marks from a velociraptor attack. Support is still there for customization sticks (specifically, the 'bundles' dir), dsd ported the code to the new dracut infrastructure. See http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/dracut-modules-olpc/tree/30olpc-customization/unpack.py#n112 I don't know how much testing it got, so it may be broken. But now you can see the code and ensure you have the right bits in the right places... Boot with prettyboot disabled to see any error msgs... m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC ?- ask interesting questions ?- don't get distracted with shiny stuff? - working code first ?- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:26:31 +0000 From: Daniel Drake <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Old bundle update method To: Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> Cc: OLPC Development <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 28 February 2011 15:20, Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the > activity install does not seem to run.? Could it be that a) I need different > versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique is > no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't > work on machines with security disabled)? Or, maybe all three. Take a read of the wiki page, especially the note about security: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick It should still be working. Daniel ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:38:48 -0500 From: Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Old bundle update method To: Daniel Drake <[email protected]> Cc: OLPC Development <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks! O, you mean that section boldly typed in red! How could I be expected to read that? :-) I will run it through the hoops on 860. Since there seems to be some code which plugs 'jffs2' in what ML sent me, should I still try with OS11? KG On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Daniel Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 February 2011 15:20, Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the > > activity install does not seem to run. Could it be that a) I need > different > > versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique > is > > no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't > > work on machines with security disabled) Or, maybe all three. > > Take a read of the wiki page, especially the note about security: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick > > It should still be working. > > Daniel > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20110228/13d329b5/attachment.htm ------------------------------ ______________________________ > > _________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > End of Devel Digest, Vol 60, Issue 57 > ************************************* > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Adam Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > Any reason auto-installation of Activities is failing on Release 11.3.0 = > Build 883 XO-1s, from a USB stick's "bundles" directory? > > The "bundles" & "boot" directories worked from the exact same USB stick > onto build 860 (and build 874 too I think). Very sadly these instructions > suddenly seem not to work anymore: (for us!) > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick > > I tried 4 different brands of USB memory sticks to be sure -- anything > else I can try? We've tried this both during the clean install to 11.3.0, > and separately after completing these reflash steps: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.0#XO-1 > > Manually installing our 16 custom Sugar Activities across 50 XOs will be a > *huge* drag/drain overnight; we're rather desperate if folks have any ideas > at all! > > -- > Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net > <http://olpcmap.net/> > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > >
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