FYI in this partic case, customization sticks fail even on
standard/secured G1G1 units (i.e. XO-1s without developer keys) as much
as a third of the time. Sometimes rebooting and retrying actually
works, for reasons unclear. Perhaps 1 in 6 secured G1G1 units will not
accept customization sticks at all (in our experience, "no matter which
USB brand / USB port") and so Activitiies need to be installed manually.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick
On 11/10/2011 11:51 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote:
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 20:40 -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote:
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]>
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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
I'll go with "c" in order to boot an unlocked XO you need to supply
boot/olpc.fth and your supplying actos.zip& runos.zip. If the security
keys match-up you should be able to boot with the "X" button to enable
security from an unlocked XO. You could extract the kernel, initrd from
the zip files placing them in /boot and supply an olpc.fth file.
Jerry
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