[OLPC-Chicago] 8.2 Problems - Response to My Previous Message

gdorner at comcast.net gdorner at comcast.net
Thu Oct 16 18:49:50 EDT 2008


And after poking around on wiki.laptop.org and trying again to load the Activities, I finally reverted to the earlier system with O-On and was back where I started. 

Then, I initiated the 8.2 download again. It worked as advertised. Again I followed the instructions to download the Activities  - there were 37 amounting to 180 MB. The results were the same - Starting to download ... but no discernible activity after 2 hours. I tried downloading only a few Activities, the Terminal, Browser, and Log, but the results were the same.

I used the Virtual Terminal to look around and found that only a leftover Opera.activity was in the Activities folder. I was going to try the USB boot, but when I go to the site to download the files I get Hex-ASCII garbage on the screen and it clobbers either Firefox or Safari (I'm on a Mac). Did the writer assume I would be in Linux to download those files? or WIndoze?

So I still have an XO with 8.2 running but no Activities to use.

I repeat:  What to do?


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> So I installed 8.2 per instructions, but when it terminated and the  
> bash prompt appeared, no message of success preceded it.
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> I browsed the new layout - very nice improvements.
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> But whn I attempted to download the Activities, the downloading  
> screen appeared showing "Starting download" and nothing happened. It  
> never terminated - I let it run overnight. I since tried twice more  
> from the Control Panel to update software. The list of Activities  
> appears, but the behavior is the same. I thus now have an XO with an  
> operating system but no Activities.
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> What to do?
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