[Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:14, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/6 Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com>:
>> Glad to hear it works, I'm going to try it this weekend on my XO.
>> I wonder if we could get the release team to execute these steps
>> automatically for each release, and then make .img files available on
>> downloads.sugarlabs.org along with the .iso files?
>
> +1 I have also asked for that.

I also like this idea, but the people currently working on soas might
have too much on their hands already, so just waiting for them to
deliver might not be the best strategy.

Anyone would like to take this task and take care of making available
image files for every .iso release?

Thanks,

Tomeu

>> That would skip a lot of
>> potential mistakes that users might make, and would lower the barrier to
>> entry (e.g. no Fedora or Ubuntu machine req).
>> The same goes for .vmdk files, I would love to have .vmdk files created
>> using http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image available
>> for each snapshot.
>
> +1 also.
>
>> Regards,
>> Wade
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried it (from Ubuntu instead of F10) and it seems to work
>>> "flawlessly"!! I've documented what I did in the wiki:
>>>
>>> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC
>>>
>>> -walter
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > below are some instructions for flashing the last Sugar on a Stick
>>> > image (containing Sugar 0.84) on a XO (provided you have a developer
>>> > key).
>>> >
>>> > Could someone volunteer to test and wikify them?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > Tomeu
>>> >
>>> > ---
>>> >
>>> > on a F10 system:
>>> >
>>> > $ sudo yum -y install crcimage mtd-utils
>>> > $ wget http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/livecd-iso-to-xo.sh
>>> > $ wget
>>> > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas-200903051021.iso
>>> > $ sudo sh livecd-iso-to-xo.sh Soas-200903051021.iso
>>> > Soas-200903051021.img
>>> >
>>> > and then copy Soas-200903051021.img and Soas-200903051021.crc to a usb
>>> > stick
>>> >
>>> > on the XO, boot with the usb stick plugged in and get into OFW, then
>>> > type the following commands
>>> >
>>> > ok disable-security
>>> > ok copy-nand u:\Soas-200903051021.img
>>> >
>>> > then the XO will reboot and you should get into Sugar.
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>>>
>>>
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