Re: olpc-update and 10.1.2
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:59 AM, S Page skierp...@gmail.com wrote: but the big problem I have is after Software update none of the new activities showed up in the Home screen in the Favorites ring or List view, and the List view shows the old versions for activities, e.g. Browse 102 not 110. Is this a known issue? All the new versions are sitting in ~/Activities, so I'm not sure why the Home screen has stale info. This sounds like existing bug http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10271 , Home view list view does not change versions after Software update, I added my report. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: olpc-update and 10.1.2
El Fri, 06-08-2010 a las 14:02 -0700, S Page escribió: If a USB olpc-update isn't possible, I'll have to flash my XO-1 and lose my work. Release notes say only, Make a copy of any data you wish to keep... how? Knowing that olpc-update was not going to be a viable solution in the field, we worked on making it easy to backup, reflash and restore. Dextrose now comes with an easy to use function to backup and restore your journal to the schoolserver or to a USB stick. In the future, we could enhance the journal UI to allow browsing the entire backup history and moving individual items back to the journal. We've been testing this procedure with 5th and 6th grade children for the past month and it works great after fixing various issues with schoolserver registration. Now, all I have to do to get an entire classroom updated is prepare 3 USB sticks, hand them out to the children and go drink tereré until they return the USB sticks. Sweet! :-) -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
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 you'll need. Will the program tell me there's not enough room? Takes about 350Mb, but it is not practical to explain exactly how much space is required, since it depends on too many factors (other previous olpc-updates in particular). Understood. I had 358MB free on my xo-1 and that wasn't enough. My first `sudo olpc-update --usb` failed with a string of errors, after it exited I had only 16MB free. BTW, Mb means Megabits, you mean MB. Yes, if there's not enough room it stops, and after clearing some room I removed the WikiBrowse activity and some large collections (maybe the release notes should have pointers for how to do this) to free up about 110 MB. it can be asked to continue from where it left off. I'm not sure what you mean, but I simply repeated the command and despite all its temp files and symlinks in /versions, it completed. Now that's good softwarin' ! The next problem is Software update wanted to install 218.8 MB of stuff and I had only 77MB free. I unchecked Wikipedia and WikipediaEN (WikiBrowse Spanish and WikiBrowse English) to save space and updated. So I think the Release notes should say [upgrade] requires roughly *450MB* of free space. And change the second part to be and if you install all the latest activities, Software update downloads about 350MB of material if that's what you are referring to. I found a few minor glitches which I'll e-mail or file Trac tickets, but the big problem I have is after Software update none of the new activities showed up in the Home screen in the Favorites ring or List view, and the List view shows the old versions for activities, e.g. Browse 102 not 110. Is this a known issue? All the new versions are sitting in ~/Activities, so I'm not sure why the Home screen has stale info. Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: olpc-update and 10.1.2
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:02:17PM -0700, S Page wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#USB_update says how to update from local files using `olpc-update -usb` , but the needed file os850.usb is not in the build directory. Do you have any plans to produce it? Fixed for os851. Don't confuse the os851.usb files between XO-1 and XO-1.5 though, since the laptop will gladly upgrade to a kernel that won't boot properly. I thought olpc-update has to be performed as root, but release notes don't say `sudo olpc-update...` Fixed. Someone inserted a /* Warning */ at the top of the Olpc-update page about activities that conflicts with what http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.2#Upgrade says. Fixed. The warning was wrong. It sounds like olpc-update will take a lot of flash space. Maybe the 10.1.2 notes should say how much you'll need. Will the program tell me there's not enough room? Takes about 350Mb, but it is not practical to explain exactly how much space is required, since it depends on too many factors (other previous olpc-updates in particular). Yes, if there's not enough room it stops, and after clearing some room it can be asked to continue from where it left off. If a USB olpc-update isn't possible, I'll have to flash my XO-1 and lose my work. Release notes say only, Make a copy of any data you wish to keep... how? The only instructions on backing up the contents of an XO I could find are http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_backup_your_XO , but that just lets me restore a previous image. Is there a guide to backing up files in such a way they're accessible in the new release? In the past I've run `rsync -av ~` to a USB drive and dragged some Journal files to USB. I don't know of a guide. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: olpc-update and 10.1.2
Some great ideas there, thanks. I'll look into them. I don't think we will block release for them though. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
