[olpc-help] clarifying how to restore

Chih-yu Chao chihyu at mit.edu
Wed Jan 9 00:07:24 EST 2008


Hi Timothy,


On Jan 8, 2008 10:03 PM, tdang <community-support at lists.laptop.org> wrote:
>
> My son's XO has been purely a plaything so far, with nothing really omportant on it, so if it turns out I lose everything, that's not such a big deal. I'm not panicking, but I'm trying to figure out...
>
> Here's what I've done:
>
> 1) I updated to build 653 (turns out for no good reason). As I understand it, that should mean that there's a pristine version of 650 still around.

Could you be more specific about how you updated your XO to build 653?
Which instructions on the wiki page (or email thread) did you follow?
This should be the main cause of losing all data and not being able to
revert back to build 650.

Thanks a lot!
Chih-yu


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