[OLPC-SF] Sugar update procedure question

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Tom Wadbrook <tom at drewschool.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A group of people here at Drew School is getting ready to return to the
> village of Keur Sadaro in Senegal, where we have a small deployment of about
> 25 XOs that we set up last summer. I'm trying to get them ready to update
> the laptops, and want to prep some USB sticks for them to take with an image
> already loaded on them. The latest instructions that I can find for doing
> this seem to suggest that we can't do it without the developer keys, which
> will be next to impossible to get before they leave (in a week). I'm
> gleaning this from here:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Downloads#Upgrade_an_XO-1_to_Sugar_0.84_with_Fedora_11_and_Gnome
> (in the section titled Updating an XO-1 to Sugar 0.84 with Fedora and Gnome.
>
> Am I looking at the correct procedures? Is there an alternative that doesn't
> require developer keys? If anyone has any guidance on the process, with the
> understanding that I'm trying to hand over instructions to a group of
> non-technical teachers who have very little experience with Sugar and the
> XOs, please let me know...
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
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Tom,
The F11 and Sugar 0.84 packages are not officially signed and are not
considered released as yet. The stable image at this point is still
8.2.1 (aka build 802). http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.1

cheers,
Sameer
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