Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

[Jake Beard]

I've installed this per your instructions, but it doesn't seem to be
working. I have three questions:
1. The build appears to take up a bit over 400MB on disk. Were you aware of
this?
2.  /versions/boot/alt seems to point to
/version/pristine/f7b6242983ab837d642bacbffe32cc8. Doing ln -sf
/versions/pristine/debian /versions/boot/alt  as root did not change the
link. I also wasn't able to rm or mv it, and i didn't want to mess with it
too much, so I just made a new simlink called /versions/boot/alt-deb. I hope
this isn't a problem.
3.  I can't seem to boot the alternate image. Holding the O gamepad key on
startup doesn't seem to do anything, whereas the other cheat codes do seem
to work. I tried booting the image manually at the prompt by using
boot disk:\versions\pristine\debian\boot\olpcrd.img, as well as
disk:\versions\boot\alt-deb
Unfortunately, no matter what I do, it seems to boot into the normal olpcrd
image.

I'd appreciate any guidance you can offer. Please let me know. Thanks.

Jake


On Dec 28, 2007 9:24 PM, Andres Salomon <dilinger at queued.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:15:36 -0500
> Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> > While waiting for the servers to finish churning last night, I put
> > together an UNOFFICIAL Debian "etch" 4.0 + XFCE4 build for the XO. It
> > includes Firefox, Thunderbird, a suite of development tools (python,
> > git, gcc, gdb, flex, bison, automake, autoconf, libtool), a music
> > player (XMMS), IRC client (irssi) and a graphical wireless AP
> > selector. The entire build takes up 250MB of flash. I optimized the
> > Firefox window layout to give you maximum screen estate, and
> > configured a number of keyboard shortcuts. Feedback welcome. Standard
> > disclaimer applies.
> >
>
> Are there source/binary packages somewhere?   I'm not sure if you've seen
> my apt repository, it has a few packages (including an xorg driver)..
>
> http://queued.mit.edu/~dilinger/sid/<http://queued.mit.edu/%7Edilinger/sid/>
>
> Lack of time has kept me from giving it much love, unfortunately.
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