[Grassroots-l] [Server-devel] Customizing build 703 for mass deployment

[Bryan Berry]

yes :), I would have to do it all over again. 

I don't expect to update the os image for at least 4 months. Given that
it would take me a week's worth of testing to verify a new OLPC build.

In that four month period, I hope to find a more elegant solution.

not very elegant. Would like a better solution but time is short.

We don't expect the kids to run olpc-update do we? Running OLPC-Update
on 170 XO's would be a headache for me to do manually. Also, I would
have to set up my olpc-update server here in Kathmandu because we don't
have the international bandwidth to update against servers in the US

Anna Schoolfield of the Birmingham School District has asked me how to
customize an xo image. Lacking a more elegant method, I will have to
point her to my current one. 



On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 23:18 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote:
> What happens when you want to upgrade to the next OLPC build? Do you
> have to do it all again?
> 
> Kim
> 
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Bryan Berry
>         <bryan.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >  Currently, I use an extremeley inelegant method to create
>         standard
>         >  images for Nepal's deployment and I would very much like
>         assistance in
>         >  finding a more elegant method. Michael Stone has been
>         helping me hack
>         >  jffs2 images but I still haven't found a better method than
>         booting into
>         >  an os image, loading rpms and changing settings, then using
>         save-nand to
>         >  create a custom .img file.
>         
>         
>         And then you copy that img from the nand to a usb stick that
>         you can
>         use on the rest of the laptops...?
>         
>         Not a bad trick ;-)
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         m
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