[Sugar-devel] Children want Sugar 0.84, for the wrong reason

[Gerald Ardito]

Bernie,

Where can I download this image?

Thanks.
Gerald

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 08:33 -0500, Gerald Ardito wrote:
>
> > By the way, how do you upgrade the XOs (we have XO-1s) to .84? This is
> > a very big deal for us.
>
> We use a local variant of the F11-XO1 images by Stephen Parrish, signed
> with the deployment keys.
>
> The procedure for each laptop is:
>
> (1) backup the lease.sig to a USB stick
>    ("cp /security/lease.sig /media/PENDRIVE")
>
> (2) reboot while pressing all 4 game keys
>
> (3) wait for about 3 minutes to load the image
>
> (4) boot with the USB stick still fitted to re-activate the
>    laptop
>
> If your laptops are unlocked, you can save steps (1) and (4) and you
> don't need a signed build. The procedure would become:
>
> (1) press ESC on boot to get to the ok prompt
>
> (2) type "copy-nand u:\osNN.img"
>
> (3) wait for about 3 minutes to load the image
>
> See my reply to Bert in this same thread for some considerations about
> Journal backup/restore.
>
> The scripts I mention in that post are available from our public
> repository, but atm I can't reach the office to retrieve the link.
>
> They're really crude scripts, no big deal. It would be really cool if
> someone could work on a bootable USB stick which would automatically
> perform full backups and restores. Not only it would save time, it would
> make students and teachers more autonomous from us techies.
>
> --
>    // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>
>
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