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

[Robert Myers]

George,

Try looking here for an alternate way of loading activities:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bert%27s_script

Another suggestion I'd make, is rather than trying to download 
everything at once, when the updater gives you a list of activities to 
install, start by loading just a few critical ones, like Terminal, 
Browse, and Log Viewer. Maybe everything at once is choking you.

I haven't had any trouble with loading and 8.2, but the last clean 
install I did was a few builds back, since then, I've done incrementals. 
Maybe there's an issue in trying to get some of the new added, 
content-fat ones.

As far as downloading bundles to your Mac to transfer to the XO, right 
or control click the bundle, and when you get the popup, select 'Save 
Link As...'. This downloads without opening.

Bob
  	
> 
> 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.
>>
>> I browsed the new layout - very nice improvements.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> What to do?
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