[Server-devel] XO

Reuben K. Caron reuben at laptop.org
Thu Jan 8 16:30:11 EST 2009



Jerry Vonau wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 15:02 -0500, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>   
>> Jerry,
>>
>> This should jump start you into the right direction:
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/No-Fail_Upgrade
>>
>> Good Luck,
>> Reuben
>>
>>     
> Thanks, I figured as much.
>
>   
>> Jerry Vonau wrote: 
>>     
>>> Hi All:
>>>
>>> Ok, I just received my XOs, being an absolute newbie with the XO, if all
>>> I see upon booting is a gray screen and the XO logo, and I don't get
>>> asked for a name as shown at:
>>> http://www.laptop.org/8.2.0/manual/XO_Starting.html
>>> I need to load an os image on this puppy, correct? 
>>>
>>> If I hold down the "game keys" I see "school-mesh-0 found" that good
>>> right? ;-) 
>>>
>>> Just need to know where I'm at before I start to play....
>>>
>>>       
>
> With a the "game keys" depressed I see that the XO is looking for
> http://172.18.0.1/fs.zip, I assume that is the path for the
> staging/upgrade images to be downloaded and installed from? If so, I
> should be able to dump the image (fs.zip and version.img) that I want to
> load into /docroot of the schoolsever and the XO should be updated
> automatically?  
>
> Jerry
>
>
>   
If you setup an AP with SSID: OLPCOFW connected to a computer with IP
172.18.0.1 with fs.zip and image file at the root of the webserver, yes
it will work; albeit slowly..


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