Here's an old thread of a convo I had in Feb. Maybe it will help?<br><br>Message: 5<br>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:20:59 -0500<br>
From: Kevin Gordon <<a href="mailto:kgordon420@gmail.com">kgordon420@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Old bundle update method<br>
To: OLPC Development <<a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org">devel@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>
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Folks:<br>
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Back in the old days, when velociraptors roamed the Earth, and build 802<br>
ruled the XO1 environment, there was a neat little customization that one<br>
could put on a USB stick that enabled one to install a bunch of activities<br>
just by booting with the customized USB stick installed.<br>
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The technique we used was to have a 'boot' directory off the root that<br>
contained two files actos.zip, and runos.zip. Also one would have a<br>
directory off the root named 'bundles' which contained all of the desired<br>
'.xo' files. Last, there was little file in the root called<br>
'configuration-2'.<br>
<br>
I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the<br>
activity install does not seem to run. Could it be that a) I need different<br>
versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique is<br>
no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't<br>
work on machines with security disabled) Or, maybe all three.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
KG<br>
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:01:08 -0500<br>
From: Martin Langhoff <<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: Old bundle update method<br>
To: Kevin Gordon <<a href="mailto:kgordon420@gmail.com">kgordon420@gmail.com</a>><br>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Gordon <<a href="mailto:kgordon420@gmail.com">kgordon420@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Back in the old days, when velociraptors roamed the Earth, and build 802<br>
> ruled the XO1 environment, there was a neat little customization that one<br>
<br>
Hey! I remember back then! Got a few bite-marks from a velociraptor attack.<br>
<br>
Support is still there for customization sticks (specifically, the<br>
'bundles' dir), dsd ported the code to the new dracut infrastructure.<br>
See<br>
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<a href="http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/dracut-modules-olpc/tree/30olpc-customization/unpack.py#n112" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/dracut-modules-olpc/tree/30olpc-customization/unpack.py#n112</a><br>
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I don't know how much testing it got, so it may be broken. But now you<br>
can see the code and ensure you have the right bits in the right<br>
places...<br>
<br>
Boot with prettyboot disabled to see any error msgs...<br>
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m<br>
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Message: 7<br>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:26:31 +0000<br>
From: Daniel Drake <<a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org">dsd@laptop.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: Old bundle update method<br>
To: Kevin Gordon <<a href="mailto:kgordon420@gmail.com">kgordon420@gmail.com</a>><br>
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On 28 February 2011 15:20, Kevin Gordon <<a href="mailto:kgordon420@gmail.com">kgordon420@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the<br>
> activity install does not seem to run.? Could it be that a) I need different<br>
> versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique is<br>
> no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't<br>
> work on machines with security disabled)? Or, maybe all three.<br>
<br>
Take a read of the wiki page, especially the note about security:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick</a><br>
<br>
It should still be working.<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
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Message: 8<br>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:38:48 -0500<br>
From: Kevin Gordon <<a href="mailto:kgordon420@gmail.com">kgordon420@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: Old bundle update method<br>
To: Daniel Drake <<a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org">dsd@laptop.org</a>><br>
Cc: OLPC Development <<a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org">devel@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>
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Thanks!<br>
<br>
O, you mean that section boldly typed in red! How could I be expected to<br>
read that?<br>
<br>
:-)<br>
<br>
I will run it through the hoops on 860. Since there seems to be some code<br>
which plugs 'jffs2' in what ML sent me, should I still try with OS11?<br>
<br>
KG<br>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Daniel Drake <<a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org">dsd@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 28 February 2011 15:20, Kevin Gordon <<a href="mailto:kgordon420@gmail.com">kgordon420@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > I have copied these files over onto a stick with the 860 builds, but the<br>
> > activity install does not seem to run. Could it be that a) I need<br>
> different<br>
> > versions of the .zip files in the boot directory, or b) this techinique<br>
> is<br>
> > no longer supported on the new firmware/OS combination, or c) it doesn't<br>
> > work on machines with security disabled) Or, maybe all three.<br>
><br>
> Take a read of the wiki page, especially the note about security:<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick</a><br>
><br>
> It should still be working.<br>
><br>
> Daniel<br>
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</blockquote><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:canoe.berry@yahoo.com">canoe.berry@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Any
reason auto-installation of Activities is failing on Release 11.3.0 =
Build 883 XO-1s, from a USB stick's "bundles" directory?<br>
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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!)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick" target="_blank"><span>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick</span></a><br>
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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:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.0#XO-1" target="_blank"><span>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.0#XO-1</span></a></div><div><br></div><div>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!<br>
<br>
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