Hi, Here's a (mostly) bugfix release of DebXO. There was a nasty bug related to JFFS2 and kernel upgrades in 0.2; this release fixes it.
Note that there's a known bug on first boot with the gnome install on JFFS2. A warning will pop up due to dbus not starting quickly enough. This can safely be ignored, and shouldn't adversely affect anything. CHANGES: - Disable LZO compression in the JFFS2 driver. This was causing machines to fail to boot after upgrading the kernel. If you're still running DebXO 0.2 on the nand, do not upgrade the kernel. Instead, reflashing is recommended. - A new 'base' desktop has been added. This is a minimal install, with no graphics or X at all. It's good for rescue situations, or where you have a local package mirror and don't want to waste bandwidth downloading a graphical desktop image. - Some programs (including kde and gnome's logout/reboot functions) had problems in previous releases due to lack of loopback interface (oops). Thanks to James Cameron for spotting this. 0.3 sets up 'lo' properly. - Custom DebXO packages are put on hold; this means you can safely 'apt-get dist-upgrade' without having to fear things like initramfs-tools being upgraded. - JFFS2 images uses DOS 8.3 filenames. This is primarily to ensure that when running "update-nand disk:\gnome.img" using a USB stick that's been formatted using vfat, OFW won't complain about not being able to find the gnome.dat file. As such, the JFFS2 images are named with their desktop names - awesome.img, kde.img, etc. EXT3 images still retain the old naming scheme. - James Cameron added a script that is capable of creating an auto-install USB key (onto nand). - A debxo-latest symlink now points to the latest release. Please use that in wiki/doc pages for download links. Other changes can be seen at: http://lunge.mit.edu/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xodist;a=summary INSTALLATION ONTO NAND FLASH: The release can be found here (note that the URL has changed): http://lunge.mit.edu/~dilinger/debxo-0.3/images/ To install onto the XO's flash, download the jffs2/$DESKTOP.dat and jffs2/$DESKTOP.img to a USB or SD stick (where $DESKTOP is one of the various desktops - gnome, kde, lxde, sugar, base, or awesome). Boot into OFW (make sure your XO is unlocked!), and run update-nand disk:\$DESKTOP.img or update-nand sd:\$DESKTOP.img (depending upon whether you downloaded to an SD or USB disk). If update-nand spits out any errors, make sure you're running an appropriately up-to-date version of OFW. The q2d* series do not support update-nand, and versions q2e18 and q2e19 are known to be buggy with partitions. Firmware and instructions for upgrading can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware INSTALLATION ONTO SD/USB: To install onto an SD or USB device, download the ext3/debxo-$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.. Enjoy! _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
