Soas snapshot

[Gary C Martin]

On 29 Jan 2009, at 10:02, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Gary C Martin  
> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>> Cool.
>>
>> Any tips as to what to do with these 2 on an XO? The only thing  
>> I've done
>> with .img and .crc before is copy-nand from firmware – is it  
>> possible to run
>> them from a usb stick without wiping nand or effecting the existing  
>> nand
>> install (so we can encourage safe(er) testing of new code)?
>
> You can use copy-nand if you want to install them on the nand. To
> install on a usb stick you can follow the Fedora on XO instruction
> (with the .iso Soas image). It should be possible to do it from a XO.
> See:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/ 
> Fedora10_On_XO#Installing_your_SD_card
>
> It would be good to add this to the Soas wiki page. Let me know if you
> have any problems!

Thanks Marco (& Daniel), will go sharpen my stick and start to poke...

--Gary

P.S. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_USB_disks also looks like  
an old wiki page of interest that may have some harvestable tips.

> Marco