New Forth Lesson - Open Firmware System Initialization

Submitted for your consideration and amusement: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lesson_20 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New Forth Lesson - Open Firmware System Initialization

On 13.08.2010, at 09:43, Mitch Bradley wrote: Submitted for your consideration and amusement: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lesson_20 Quite fascinating! Thanks for writing this up :) - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: olpc-update and 10.1.2

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:04 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: [[`olpc-update --usb`]] Fixed for os851. Excellent, and I can confirm it works for an upgrade from 8.2.1 (build 802). It sounds like olpc-update will take a lot of flash space.  Maybe the 10.1.2 notes should say how much

strange behavior of 'rm'

I experiment with manually adding/deleting Activities, then restarting Sugar. Sometimes I've seen obsolete activity-versions being listed in some sort of snapshot recorded in shell.log. I've empirically found that I can lessen this by deleting ~/.sugar/default/favorite_activities - and letting

NOW! Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting, 2:30PM Boston Time, Friday)

Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing

Re: strange behavior of 'rm'

I'm mystified too. But it doesn't happen when I try it on os851 on XO-1.5 ... 1. the file can be deleted by user olpc in Terminal and stays deleted until Sugar restart, (an rm -f works, then an rm -f fails with No such file or directory), 2. the file can be deleted by user root in text

[Server-devel] Cloning

Are there any recommended ways of cloning an XS installation? We have tried Ping and Reflect but with difficulty. David Leeming ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Cloning

Hi David, super brief - - get the machine in 'single user mode' (init 1 on the commandline will work) - plug new disk in, setup the partition table, and the filesystems - rsync / and /library to the temp mountpoints - remove hardware-specific files: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persisntent-net.rules -