11.3.0 build 4 released, for *XO-1.75*, XO-1.5 and XO-1

[James Cameron]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:14:12PM -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote:
> I have another silly request.  For those of us testing on multiple
> platforms, the download file names for both the 1.75 and 1.5 image are
> now the same: i.e.: os4.zd4.  It would be nice to be able to
> differentiate between the two, as in the easy way it was for uim/onu
> for XO-1 vs zd4/zsp for XO 1.5 on previous downloads.

I'd prefer not to solve your problem in that way.  That difference was
an accident of file format.  We use the same file format for XO-1.5 and
XO-1.75.

Rather, what we have is automatic installation using the four game keys
method, which will search for a file name that matches the hardware,
such as

fs0.zip for XO-1
fs1.zip for XO-1.5
fs2.zip for XO-1.75

So you could have on your USB drive the following files:

os874.zd4 (from 11.2.0 for XO-1.5),
os874.zd4.zsp.fs.zip, renamed to fs1.zip,
os874.img (from 11.2.0 for XO-1),
os874.img.fs.zip, renamed to fs0.zip,
os880.zd4 (from 11.3.0 for XO-1.75),
os880.zd4.zsp.fs.zip, renamed to fs2.zip,

... and then the USB drive would work for any model.

To that end, I'd like to see the os${BUILD}.zd4.zsp.fs.zip files
included on build.laptop.org.

Non-technical users will need their USB drives prepared for them.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/