Re: XO: Snap3 is a step backwards?

[James Laska]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:31 -0400, Blake St. Claire wrote:
>  I haven't seen anyone else mention it.
>  
>  --overlay-size-mb 512 --swap-size-mb 384 (from
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/Fedora10_On_XO) is too big
>  for the 4G SD. I used 384 and 256.
>  
>  First time power up I think the kernel had an oops while booting.
>  
>  Second time got as far as the login and clicked the Login button.
>  After 30 seconds of nothing happening I pressed Ctrl-Alt-F2 and
>  switched to text-mode getty on tty2 before the box wedged.
>  
>  Third time got past the login (now with  the wrong DPI) and got as far
>  as the Appearances Preferences to try to reset the DPI, and also
>  started a terminal before the box wedged.
>  
>  What do they say about doing the same thing over and over and
>  expecting different results?
>  
>  Anyone have any better luck with Snap3? 
Working okay on my XO, however I read from Ignacio that you may need to
use a smaller swap and overlap when writing the image to the SD card. 

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:37 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>  I had to reduce them to 320 and 256 in order to get them to fit.
Does that help?  Any stdout/err messages when writing your SD card?

Thanks,
James