Trying to installing either the gnome or awesome JFFS2 versions from an SD card formatted as ext2.
Using laptop firmware q2e18, on two different machines, this fails with: <....>:75: error writing to NAND Flash after writing 40 blocks. What is going on ? wad On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Andres Salomon wrote: > Hi, > > I've prepared a new release of DebXO. This has a number of new > features and desktops. > > NEW FEATURES: > > - The JFFS2 images now have partition support. While this shaves a > number of seconds off of the boot time, we can take better > advantage of > it in the future (doing things like using UBIFS). JFFS2 is well past > its prime; moving away from it will help performance a lot. > > - EXT3 images have been added. This allows for booting off of USB > and/or SD. Note that the image size I chose is 2GB, so you'll need a > USB stick or SD card of at least that size. > > - The kernel is now almost completely modular, and includes every > module under the sun. For those of you with random USB hardware that > wanted to use it with DebXO.. if it's in 2.6.25, it should work with > DebXO. > > - New desktops! DebXO 0.1 only had a Gnome desktop; this release > includes KDE, LXDE, Sugar, Awesome and Gnome desktops. I personally > run (and work on) the Gnome desktop. Holger Levsen is to thank for > the > Sugar and Awesome desktops. James Cameron did the work for the KDE > and > LXDE desktops. A huge thanks to both of them! > > As far as bootup times, nand is still pretty absymal (due to jffs2); > however, SD booting takes 75 seconds from OFW to fully usable X. > > > INSTALLATION ONTO NAND FLASH: > > The release can be found here (note that the URL has changed): > > http://lunge.mit.edu/~dilinger/debxo-0.2/images/ > > To install onto the XO's flash, download the debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.dat > and debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.img to a USB or SD stick (where $DESKTOP is > one of the various desktops - gnome, kde, lxde, sugar, or awesome). > Boot into OFW (make sure your XO is unlocked!), and run > > update-nand disk:\debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.img > > or > > update-nand sd:\debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.img > > (depending upon whether you downloaded to an SD or USB disk). If your > SD or USB device is using a windows filesystem, you can figure out the > name of the image by running > > dir disk:\ > > If update-nand spits out any errors, make sure you're running an > appropriately up-to-date version of OFW. The q2d* series do not > support update-nand, and versions q2e18 and q2e19 are known to be > buggy > with partitions. Firmware and instructions for upgrading > can be found here: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware > > > INSTALLATION ONTO SD/USB: > > To install onto an SD or USB device, download the > debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz file, and run > > zcat debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz > /dev/mmcblk0 > > or > > zcat debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz > /dev/sdX > > (depending upon whether you're writing to an SD or USB disk). Note > that this will overwrite any data that is on the SD or USB disk. > > > USAGE: > > By default, a user 'olpc' is created (with no password, and sudo > access). Some desktops automatically start a display manager and log > you in; some do not. The root password is disabled by default. This > is a stock Debian Lenny system with only a few modifications, so it > can > obviously be tailored. > > > HACKING: > > xodist is the name of the collection of scripts that are used to > produce DebXO. The git repository can be downloaded via: > > git clone git://lunge.mit.edu/git/xodist > > There's also a web interface to that: > > http://lunge.mit.edu/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xodist;a=summary > > There's a TODO file in the repository, but really... just scratch > whatever itch you happen to have. Patches are much appreciated. > Additional desktops (XFCE, for example?), better handling of the > default user/password, boot/runtime optimizations, suggestions for > missing packages, etc.. > > > CREDITS: > > Thanks to James Cameron and Holger Levsen for various > patches/tweaks/fixes, and to the various people who tested and > provided > feedback. > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
