Can this be installed to an external hard disk and be booted off of?<br>I would hate to fill up my 1GB and use all my flash write cycles...<br><font color="#888888"><br>-ffm</font><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 28, 2007 4:15 PM, Ivan Krstić <
<a href="mailto:krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu">krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
While waiting for the servers to finish churning last night, I put<br>together an UNOFFICIAL Debian "etch" 4.0 + XFCE4 build for the XO. It<br>includes Firefox, Thunderbird, a suite of development tools (python,
<br>git, gcc, gdb, flex, bison, automake, autoconf, libtool), a music<br>player (XMMS), IRC client (irssi) and a graphical wireless AP<br>selector. The entire build takes up 250MB of flash. I optimized the<br>Firefox window layout to give you maximum screen estate, and
<br>configured a number of keyboard shortcuts. Feedback welcome. Standard<br>disclaimer applies.<br><br><br>How to install<br>--------------<br><br>1. download the following two files to a USB stick:<br><br> <<a href="http://radian.org/%7Ekrstic/etch-xfce.tar" target="_blank">
http://radian.org/~krstic/etch-xfce.tar</a>><br> <<a href="http://radian.org/%7Ekrstic/etch-xfce-home.tar" target="_blank">http://radian.org/~krstic/etch-xfce-home.tar</a>><br><br>2. get a developer key, disable security
<br>3. boot the normal build, switch to tty1 (ctrl+alt+f1), become root<br>4. mount the USB key if not automounted; let's say it's mounted at /<br>media/KEY<br>4. # cd /versions/pristine; tar xf /media/KEY/etch-xfce.tar
<br>5. # cd /home/olpc; tar xf /media/KEY/etch-xfce-home.tar<br>6. # cp -rl /versions/pristine/debian /versions/run/debian<br>7. # /usr/sbin/setattr -R --iunlink /versions/run/debian<br>8. # ln -s /versions/pristine/debian /versions/boot/alt
<br>9. # sync<br>10. Power off the XO. Power on and immediately hold the 'O' game key<br>(right hand side of the screen.<br><br>Boot should now proceed to a blue-background login screen. Log in as<br>user 'olpc' with password 'olpc' -- that user has sudo access. Give
<br>XFCE a bit of time to load, and voila! Use the keyboard shortcuts<br>below for some of the most useful options. Note that Firefox can take<br>up to 15-20s to load after you start it, and you won't see a progress<br>
indication on the screen; that's expected. Also, you don't need to<br>hold the 'O' key to boot into Debian next time; it'll be the default.<br>Holding the key will get you back to the regular Sugar build.
<br><br><br>Keyboard shortcuts<br>------------------<br><br>- Ctrl+alt+w -- wireless AP picker<br>- Ctrl+alt+t -- xterm (also alt+`)<br>- Ctrl+alt+f -- firefox<br>- Ctrl+alt+b -- thunderbird<br>- Ctrl+alt+x -- xmms<br><br>
Enjoy,<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Ivan Krstić <<a href="mailto:krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu">krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu</a>> | <a href="http://radian.org" target="_blank">http://radian.org</a><br><br>
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