any drawbacks to using copy-nand and save-nand to install XO images

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Thu Mar 27 17:57:16 EDT 2008


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 03:23:59PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> A much better strategy is to reflash an XO, boot it off of external
> media (like a USB key), make changes to the NAND, then save-nand, thus
> avoiding the first-boot configuration junk.

I agree, and this is the way I did the 406 recut with changed wireless
firmware a few months ago.  Without doing it this way, the first-boot
configuration changes could get in the way of normal operation.

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