Activities won't auto-install from USB "bundles" folder onto 11.3.0?

Wed Nov 9 20:40:21 EST 2011

Here's an old thread of a convo I had in Feb.  Maybe it will help?

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:20:59 -0500
From: Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com>
Subject: Old bundle update method
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Folks:

Back in the old days, when velociraptors roamed the Earth, and build 802
ruled the XO1 environment, there was a neat little customization that one
could put on a USB stick that enabled one to install a bunch of activities
just by booting with the customized USB stick installed.

The technique we used was to have a 'boot' directory off the root that
contained two files actos.zip, and runos.zip.  Also one would have a
directory off the root named 'bundles' which contained all of the desired
'.xo' files.  Last, there was little file in the root called
'configuration-2'.

I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the
activity install does not seem to run.  Could it be that a) I need different
versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique is
no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't
work on machines with security disabled)  Or, maybe all three.

Cheers

KG
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:01:08 -0500
From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Old bundle update method
To: Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Back in the old days, when velociraptors roamed the Earth, and build 802
> ruled the XO1 environment, there was a neat little customization that one

Hey! I remember back then! Got a few bite-marks from a velociraptor attack.

Support is still there for customization sticks (specifically, the
'bundles' dir), dsd ported the code to the new dracut infrastructure.
See

http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/dracut-modules-olpc/tree/30olpc-customization/unpack.py#n112

I don't know how much testing it got, so it may be broken. But now you
can see the code and ensure you have the right bits in the right
places...

Boot with prettyboot disabled to see any error msgs...

m
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:26:31 +0000
From: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>
Subject: Re: Old bundle update method
To: Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com>
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On 28 February 2011 15:20, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the
> activity install does not seem to run.? Could it be that a) I need
different
> versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique is
> no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't
> work on machines with security disabled)? Or, maybe all three.

Take a read of the wiki page, especially the note about security:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick

It should still be working.

Daniel

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:38:48 -0500
From: Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Old bundle update method
To: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>
Cc: OLPC Development <devel at lists.laptop.org>
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Thanks!

O, you mean that section boldly typed in red!  How could I be expected to
read that?

:-)

I will run it through the hoops on 860.  Since there seems to be some code
which plugs 'jffs2' in what ML sent me, should I still try with OS11?

KG

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:

> On 28 February 2011 15:20, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the
> > activity install does not seem to run.  Could it be that a) I need
> different
> > versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique
> is
> > no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't
> > work on machines with security disabled)  Or, maybe all three.
>
> Take a read of the wiki page, especially the note about security:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick
>
> It should still be working.
>
> Daniel
>
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On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Adam Holt <canoe.berry at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Any reason auto-installation of Activities is failing on Release 11.3.0 =
> Build 883 XO-1s, from a USB stick's "bundles" directory?
>
> The "bundles" & "boot" directories worked from the exact same USB stick
> onto build 860 (and build 874 too I think).  Very sadly these instructions
> suddenly seem not to work anymore: (for us!)
>
>     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick
>
> I tried 4 different brands of USB memory sticks to be sure -- anything
> else I can try?  We've tried this both during the clean install to 11.3.0,
> and separately after completing these reflash steps:
>
>     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.0#XO-1
>
> Manually installing our 16 custom Sugar Activities across 50 XOs will be a
> *huge* drag/drain overnight; we're rather desperate if folks have any ideas
> at all!
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