Re: Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

2007-12-29 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Dec 29, 2007, at 12:16 AM, Jake Beard wrote: 1. The build appears to take up a bit over 400MB on disk. Were you aware of this? It's 435MB uncompressed, but JFFS2 does automatic compression. The XFCE build takes up 250MB of XO flash once installed. 2. /versions/boot/alt seems to point

Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

2007-12-29 Thread Rick Evans
If I were all-powerful and could change anything about this wildly unofficial build: 1. wpasupplicant is a useful package. It took me a while to install and configure it. 2. I had an issue with timestamps when trying to use sudo on the first few boots. I left the machine overnight, and it

Re: Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

2007-12-29 Thread Ian Daniher
RE backlight control; a temporary solution involving the xfce4 panel is up here: http://www.freelikegnu.org/?p=17 Best of luck and happy hacking, -- Ian Daniher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype : it.daniher ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

2007-12-28 Thread ffm
Can this be installed to an external hard disk and be booted off of? I would hate to fill up my 1GB and use all my flash write cycles... -ffm On Dec 28, 2007 4:15 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While waiting for the servers to finish churning last night, I put together an UNOFFICIAL

Re: Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

2007-12-28 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Dec 28, 2007, at 4:17 PM, ffm wrote: Can this be installed to an external hard disk and be booted off of? With a bit of work. I would hate to fill up my 1GB and use all my flash write cycles... If you keep the Sugar build in place and add this one, you'd only fill up about half the

Re: Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

2007-12-28 Thread Jake Beard
Cool :) Jake On Dec 28, 2007 4:15 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While waiting for the servers to finish churning last night, I put together an UNOFFICIAL Debian etch 4.0 + XFCE4 build for the XO. It includes Firefox, Thunderbird, a suite of development tools (python, git, gcc,

Re: Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

2007-12-28 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:15:36 -0500 Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While waiting for the servers to finish churning last night, I put together an UNOFFICIAL Debian etch 4.0 + XFCE4 build for the XO. It includes Firefox, Thunderbird, a suite of development tools (python, git, gcc,

Re: Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

2007-12-28 Thread Jake Beard
I've installed this per your instructions, but it doesn't seem to be working. I have three questions: 1. The build appears to take up a bit over 400MB on disk. Were you aware of this? 2. /versions/boot/alt seems to point to /version/pristine/f7b6242983ab837d642bacbffe32cc8. Doing ln -sf