On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > I'm going to back-port the minihal.py (index 6d4e6de..8ab93d4 100644) > fix to what I have going on here.
Cool! > the cf card, this should be almost be good to go, just have to write a > post part in the kickstart file to setup the olpc.fth file. The trick to > getting this all working is to plug in the external drive in after > anaconda loads up to the language screen, keeps from messing with OFW's > and the kernel's drive ordering. An external hard drive could be > boot-able if you set up the olpc.fth file on the first partition as long > as it is not lvm, so this opens up that avenue also. I used that method > to load the stock updated os on to the XO. When you say external drive, do you mean the SD card or another bit of media? > I've add the need modules and firmware to support the cf card and the > on-board wireless into anaconda's build routine. I get prompted to > configure the on-board wireless lan now..(yet to be tested). Guess I > should bz that one too. Should this be successful, live updates at > install time could be possible. Then how would we like the on-board > interface to come up as? Part of the mesh, > or let it be available to be configured for internet access by default? A mesh device, our goal is to have a School Server, so we'll want it as a mesh gateway antenna... but we'll wipe those files away and setup our wonky configuration from xs-config, right? > I should have an updated patch set later this weekend. Cool - I had this thread marked as "to review/test/merge" but I now realise you are still working on it. let me know how it goes! m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel