Hi Martin, On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > In between various complications, I have been working on getting an > initial rebase of the XS packages and build infra to F11. > > After much wrangling with revisor, comps and image-creator, I have an > initial installer iso and an image that boots on the XO-1. The XO > image tests reasonably well, I haven't had chance to play much with > the installer iso (but the image is built from it). > > All of the above owes a lot to hints from Jerry Vonau - thanks! > > You will find the files on http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/ in > about... 6hs -- the name says "0.7" which is misleading, so I will rm > them once I have better ones. But in case you want something to play > with :-) > > Notes: > > - The XO image is using the old XO kernel -- > -- I could not include the new kernel from dillinger's repo due to > a conflict with kernel-firmware, even if say "-kernel-firmware" in the > ks. > -- the vanilla F11 kernels fail to boot on the XO -- expected?
I think it should boot but I don't think the boot.fth is created but its been a while since I've got around to trying it on my XO. > - The build is slimmer (without a need to slim-it-down manually) > because upstream now avoid including some if the boot images in the > main iso. > > - However, that means that making a bootable usb is harder for users. What causes it to be harder to make a bootable usb? > - Dependency chains are slimmer... but some are still bizarre. Bits > of kde and gnome are there. At a guess this is probably due to PolicyKit. I've had issues with it in the past. > Digests and sizes > > 546M /srv/revisor/xs-f11-i386/iso/OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.iso > 401M OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.img.gz > > aa41b6dbca1aac13f842f13f8106019276d065e6 OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.iso > 6bfe1a507704e21e84660a8d091624ffc7dee17a OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.img.gz Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel