[support-gang] Activities won't auto-install from USB "bundles" folder onto 11.3.0?

Kevin Gordon kgordon420 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 20:23:35 EST 2011


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:15 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 07:25:14PM -0500, Holt wrote:
> > 2) Our cheap 2GB Micro Center USB sticks work great for reflashing,
> > but fail about 50% of the time as Customization Sticks, ...
>
> It might not be a quality issue with the USB drives.  It might be an
> incompatibility.  The customisation stick role requires a different
> pattern of access by OpenFirmware.  Knowing that the different pattern
> of access causes a problem is good data.
>
> > Aside: our XO-1s all contain build 883 and firmware Q2E48.
>
> Q2E49 and Q2F05 have significant improvements to USB drive support for
> XO-1, thanks to work by Mitch Bradley.  I've been testing this support.
> Q2E48 does not have these changes.
>

Mr Holt:

I can concur with Mr. C.,  I'm running Q2F05 on all the XO1's here with
build 883 and have had no issues.  Any regressions we saw with Q204Frc/rd
seem to be now no more than fleeting memories.

Cheers,

KG



>
> Recommend you either:
>
> 1.  try these USB drives with Q2E49 or Q2F05, in particular as
> customisation sticks, or;
>
> 2.  send me one.
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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