[OLPC-Chicago] What we accomplished at MVCC

[Ben Rothman]

    After the meet up I went home and typed up a document of every single thing I use to setup up the olpc from wiping it clean to 656. (in other words, every action I do on the olpc to customize it to the way I want it after clearing the memory doing an activated update to update 656.) basicly I did this to save time and work for times where I fill up the drive with junk and/or have any other problems. I have not seen if this works w/ the 

But I digress, heres the txt document:

do whatever steps you want, obviously this is personalized towards me but much of it was learned at the MVCC
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List of all XO setup commands:

all indented text is to be typed into the terminal unless it has a *** in front, then it describes part of an action.  after doing most actions a restart of flash (ctrl+alt+erase) is required

HOW TO SAVE TIME TYPING ALL THIS JUNK INTO THE TERMINAL:
    ***get a usb mouse and plug it into the XO
    ***open this email in the browse activity
    ***highlight one line and press ctrl+C
    ***switch to the terminal and test that you can type things
    ***press the scroll wheel (its also a button!) and it will paste the line of text
    ***press enter
(lengthy, yes, but impossible to make mistakes)    

get 656 onto the XO and clear memory
    (on another computer)
    ***download http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/656/jffs2/fs.zip
    ***download http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/656/jffs2/os656.img
    ***put both onto a USB drive or SD card (i also throw in a zip file of all the downloaded activities I use to save time)
    ***put the usb/sd into your xo
    ***startup the xo while pressing all for buttons above the power button





Jabber on startup [if you dont want it on startup then just do the sugar-control-panel line (no su or vi boforehand)]
    vi‭ .xsession 
‭    o 
‭    sugar-control-panel -s jabber jabber.olpchacks.org
    ‭[ (x) ] 
    :wq‭ 
‭    ctrl+alt+erase 


‭Opera

‭    su -
    rpm‭ -vi http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/olpc-544/opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm 
‭    exit 
‭    mkdir /home/olpc/Activities 
‭    cd /home/olpc/Activities 
‭    wget http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/olpc/opera-activity.tar.gz 
‭    tar xvzf opera-activity.tar.gz 
‭    rm opera-activity.tar.gz 
‭    exit 


‭Flash

‭    su -
    wget flash9048.notlong.com‭ 
‭    rpm -i flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm 
‭    exit 


‭Remove click to play in flash

‭    su - 
‭    cd /usr/share/activities/Web.activity
    mkdir bak‭ 
‭    mv agent-stylesheet.css bak 
‭    mv clickToView.xml bak
‭    exit 


‭Midnight Commander (file browsing)

‭    su -
    yum install mc‭ 
‭    exit 


‭Files to delete

‭    su - 
‭    mc 
‭    ***Then hilight the following and press [delete]
‭    ***/usr/share/activities/AcousticMeasure.activity
‭    ***/usr/share/activities/TurtleArtActivity.activity
‭    ***/usr/share/activities/Paint.activity 
‭    ***Quit mc 
‭    exit 


‭Activities to Download[again, i put these into a zip folder and threw it into my boot SD card(dedicated to serve the boot function) so that I dont need to downloadthem from the XO]

‭    ***Start the Browse Activity 
‭    ***Go to the following URLs 
‭    ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/8/88/BlockParty-7.xo 
‭    ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/a/a6/Simcity-4.xo 
‭    ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/a/ad/Implode-2.xo 
‭    ***http://www.wadeb.com/Bounce-4.xo 
‭    ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/b/b8/Doom-1.xo 
‭    ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/1/18/Speak-5.xo 
‭    ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/2/2c/Frotz-2.xo 
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    Someone whose name i forget was looking into overclocking the XO. How did that go? (overclock means making the processor run faster than it is supposed to at the risk of frying your processor)
 
I really hope this helps more than it confuses
-Ben Rothman