Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread S Page
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Steven M. Parrishsmparr...@gmail.com wrote: I have taken over creating builds for the XO1 from Daniel, and have created a new build of F11 for the XO1. Thanks! I updated http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 and some other pages to reflect that Mr. Drake's

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 22:23, Mikus Grinbergsmi...@bga.com wrote: This build OS3  includes the pretty boot animations, and also replaces olpcsound with csound. I would apprectiate testing and feedback. Disclaimer:  perhaps off-topic Usability report : Was running Firefox 3.5 (*not* the

kernel debugging

2009-08-02 Thread NoiseEHC
Hi! Recently I have started porting Android-x86 to the XO-1 and unfortunately hit a wall. I know that it can be done since somebody already booted it but the hard drive crashed in his laptop and he had no backups... The porting progresses a little bit slowly because I know almost nothing

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread NoiseEHC
I copied both files to a usb drive then booted with holding the esc key. Then 'copy-nand u:\os3.img' then it copied and I got back the firmware prompt. It did not bark about wrong crc or something like that. Then I switched the XO-1 off then switched on and all I can get is a Boot failed error

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Tomeu, I have great difficulty in dealing with your responses to the posts I make. What I had written was a reply to Steven Parrish asking I would appreciate testing and feedback. It was my intent to provide feedback on system-related matters that in my opinion deserved being brought to the

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2009-08-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I copied both files to a usb drive then booted with holding the esc key. Then 'copy-nand u:\os3.img' then it copied and I got back the firmware prompt. It did not bark about wrong crc or something like that. Then I switched the XO-1 off then switched on and all I can get is a Boot failed

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Yioryos posted a list of package differences between os2 and os3. I don't know how authoritative this list is -- but if those are *all* the differences, I myself would not have needed to migrate my os2 XO-1s to os3 -- by explicitly having applied the individual package upgrades in that list, I

Is using the datastore.find() function reliable and safe?

2009-08-02 Thread sumit singh
Hello all, I want to save files from my activity so that I can retrieve them from the future instances of my activity and also want them to be visible in the journal. So, I am planning to save them in the datastore. And is planning to retrieve them using the datastore.find() function in the

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-08-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Paul Foxp...@laptop.org wrote: sascha wrote:    good stuff about LVM thank you.  i was aware of LVM, but didn't realize it would accomplish quite what i was proposing. Having used LVM, I am less that enthusiastic about it. It definitely requires a lot of

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
What would be the simplest way to run os3 from USB flash drive? Ubuntu usb-creator does not recognize os3.iso as desktop install CD. Thanks, Sergey ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Sat, 8/1/09, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: From: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org Subject: Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing To: Steven M. Parrish smparr...@gmail.com Cc: OLPC Devel devel@lists.laptop.org, Fedora List fedora-olpc-l...@redhat.com Date:

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Fri, 7/31/09, Steven M. Parrish smparr...@gmail.com wrote: I have taken over creating builds for the XO1 from Daniel, and have created a new build of F11 for the XO1.  This build OS3  includes the pretty boot animations, and also replaces olpcsound with csound. I believe that

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: From: Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com Subject: Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing To: OLPC Devel devel@lists.laptop.org Cc: Fedora List fedora-olpc-l...@redhat.com Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 2:03 PM Yioryos