On Jan 3, 2008 6:16 AM, Anonymous <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Is there any way to "flush" the nickname, identity, preferences, journal settings in order to return the OLPC to it's new "just out of the box" state? </blockquote><div><br>Yes. You can re-flash the XO back to the original state using the Activated Upgrade procedure and a copy of the original release.
<br> See <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activated_Upgrade">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activated_Upgrade</a><br><br>This wipes out all Journal entries, and allows the child to enter his or her own name.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Suppose you just wanted to "test drive" it before giving it to a son, daughter, niece, or nephew? You don't want them to have to use the nickname that you choose, nor see all the silly journal entries of you poking around the thing...
<br><br>I'm wondering if simply renaming the /home/olpc folder will force it to reinitialize that users home and all it's settings??? Might give it a try..</blockquote><div><br>Yup. Sounds like you're going to want to keep a re-flash image handy... ;-)
<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Steve Holton<br><a href="mailto:sph0lt0n@gmail.com">sph0lt0n@gmail.com</a>