Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Booting SoaS on a PC and on an XO with the same stick (Yes, it can be done)
by Martin Dengler
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:54:27PM -0500, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
> While browsing the liveusb-creator source on
> https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/browser
> I noticed that it should be possible to boot SoaS directly on the XO.
There are some tools to create a Soas image from either an .iso or
just RPMs (well, an F10 system and lots of RPMs, anyway) at
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/trees/master
...and some rougher ones (but work for me, on my XO), at my clone
(notably, the livecd-iso-to-xo.sh):
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mtds-clone/trees/master
There are no instructions I know of except: "use the 'build' script"
and ask on freenode.net's #sugar IRC channel, but sometimes it's even
just useful to know it's been done a few times already. For example,
I was interested to know that you did it from Windows.
> Ton van Overbeek
Martin
15 years, 2 months
[SoaS-2] Maintainers, please update your packages!
by Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks,
this concerns Sugar Activity Maintainers, as well as Fedora Package
Maintainers, which is also the reason, why it was cross-posted.
As you might know, the upcoming release of Sugar 0.84 is scheduled for
today. Now, how does this concern Sugar on a Stick? Well, we'd like to
be able to provide a stable version with all the latest activities and
modules as soon as possible. But for that, we need you help:
So. Please go ahead and have your packages updated and built in Koji for
F11 by this FRIDAY (2009/03/06)!
We've a table comparing the current versions with the ones in Fedora
ready (while with the upcoming release, it might still need to be
updated, though): http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap
Please make sure that the information on this page is accurate, too.
Finally, if you've any suggestion for a honey activity, which we should
definitely include, just add it to the wishlist there!
Thanks in advance and looking forward to a great release! ;)
--The SoaS Team
15 years, 2 months
No build today
by Chris Ball
Hi,
No build today because livecd-creator has stopped working here:
Error creating Live CD : syslinux not installed : no suitable
/usr/lib/syslinux/*menu.c32 found
Anyone know what's up with that? :)
- Chris.
--
Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>
15 years, 2 months
Fedora on XO
by Peter Robinson
Hi All,
Sorry that I've been a bit quite. $DAYJOB has been a lot more hectic
than I like and taking a lot longer than usual office hours :(
Anyway it looks as if someone might have replaced the broken globe at
the end of the tunnel.
Anyway I've been looking through greg's list [1] of packages for F11.
It looks like there are quite a few that can be taken off the list as
they're fixed. Like squeak-vm is now in rawhide [2]. I'm going to go
through and add some notes to the page and prepend them with PBR so
that the information is in a central location.
Oh and I hope to start testing Chris's rawhide builds very shortly.
Cheers,
Peter
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC/Packages_for_F11
[2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-February/msg01872.html
15 years, 2 months
Re: rsync'ing .iso
by Jeremy Katz
On Sunday, March 01 2009, Tomeu Vizoso said:
> I see that some projects distribute xdelta3 files of their .iso files
> and others use rsync, but the .iso we generate with the fedora livecd
> tools don't compress almost anything by that. It's because we miss a
> switch like --rsyncable somewhere?
squashfs, unfortunately, isn't rsync friendly. And since the live
images depend on squashfs to fit on a CD, there's not much we can do[1]
Jeremy
[1] Well, if someone wanted to work on support for making squashfs more
rsync friendly, they could -- but that'd need to be done upstream and
not in Fedora, per-se. Also, there may be movement to lzma-based
compression for squashfs which may or may not help, but I haven't been
keeping up with squashfs developments recently
15 years, 2 months
Re: Announce: first bootable Rawhide build
by Mikus Grinbergs
> I still can't seem to get this to work on my XO.
>
> I have the latest firmware, the developer key on my USB stick
> in /security/develop.sig, I ran "disable-security" in Open Firmware, and
> I copied the image to the nand.
>
> I no longer get the frowny face, I can't get past "Loading ramdisk image
> from nand:\boot\initrd0.img ...".
I've been criticized for publishing 'opinions', not 'facts'.
It is my 'opinion' that I notice more frequently in 2009 than in
2008 that I sometimes can't get past "Loading ramdisk image from
nand:\boot\initrd0.img ...". [To even see that message with the
latest firmware, one needs to press the 'check' button when booting
-- it is now my practice to *always* press 'check' when what I am
trying to boot is rawhide !] I have a number of external devices
plugged into the USB ports on my XO -- when I see that message I'll
normally unplug something and then repeat trying to boot.
>
> Is this a symptom of the SD card support issues?
In addition to the 100-second timeout during XO boot for which
someone wrote a bugzilla.redhat ticket, I experience 40-100 second
delays each time I access the SD card on my XO from rawhide. As a
result, instead of a "permanent SD card" (as on my other XOs, to
hold additional software and data) I now use a "permanent USB stick"
on the XO on which I run rawhide.
mikus
15 years, 2 months
Announce: first bootable Rawhide build
by Chris Ball
Hi,
Today's (unmodified) Rawhide build boots into X on the XO, so I made
some disk images for it. They contain both Sugar and GNOME, and you
can choose between the two in GDM. Sebastian Dziallas made the
kickstart file that we're using.
http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/20090217/
Installation instructions:
* Get a developer key, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys
* Upgrade to latest OFW, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e32
NAND:
* put 20090217.img and .crc on a USB key
* in OFW: copy-nand u:\20090217.img
USB/SD:
* insert a USB key that is at least 2G, and:
zcat 20090217.bootable.gz > /dev/sdX
* SD should work, but we're seeing a problem with the kernel SD driver
qemu:
* sudo qemu-kvm -cdrom 20090217.iso
Known problems:
* wireless crashes the machine on boot, so it is disabled.
* fonts are tiny in Sugar
* The tty framebuffer is corrupted; fix sent upstream, not made it back
to Fedora yet
Steps to reproduce the build:
git clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/fedora-xo
sudo livecd-creator --cache=cache -c ~/fedora-xo/olpc-desktop.ks
(this produces the ISO)
sudo sh livecd-iso-to-xo.sh 20090217.iso 20090217.img
(produces NAND image and CRC)
sudo /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk --format --xo --xo-no-home 20090217.iso /dev/sdX1
(produces a bootable disk or SD card)
sudo dd if=/dev/sdX of=20090217.bootable && gzip 20090217.bootable
(produces a raw image of the created disk)
Please report any problems you find to the list, thanks,
- Chris.
--
Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>
15 years, 2 months
