On Jan 3, 2008 6:59 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;">
Ya, it just seems like there should be an easier way than flashing the whole system back to stock. Are all of the journal and nickname settings kept in the ~olpc folder? If so it seems like you should be able to re-create that user and be back to square one as far as it's settings go... I already almost clobbered the system per
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:D0li0#Reset_nickname_and_preferences.3F" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:D0li0#Reset_nickname_and_preferences.3F</a> #1., but managed to recover relatively easily. Thank goodness, cause I'm only borrowing the system from a coworker before it goes to his niece, but he would like to revert it for her so that's one of the things I was toying with. Had he/we known then perhaps a copy (via a F1 console) of the ~olpc folder pre choosing a nickname would aid in quick reversion? Anyone got a tar ball of that pristine folder handy? I'm just worried that there's some other unique identifying information pre-configured into that folder before they ship... Any thoughts?
</blockquote><div><br>The 'quick reversion' method is the one I mentioned. <br><br>The XO is /much/ more complicated than just settings in a folder. Consider, for example, that upon first boot the XO generates for itself a psudo-random cryptographic key which becomes it's unique identity among all XO's.
<br><br>You would not want such information stored in an easily-mungable location.<br><br>The upgrade image is essentially a tarball of the whole system. <br> </div><br></div>-- <br>Steve Holton<br><a href="mailto:sph0lt0n@gmail.com">
sph0lt0n@gmail.com</a>