[Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns

Thu Jun 16 10:41:15 EDT 2011

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Installing_from_USB 
has a download for the script, but it seems broken.  Where did you get it? 
Is it something simple like needing to issue ./mkusbinstall or use sudo?

If you google mkusbinstall there are several versions

http://dev.laptop.org.au/search?q=mkusbinstall has some info.

There is a link to the scrip in this email, but in might not be the latest 
version.

Jerry Vonau <jvo... at shaw.ca> 1220119632Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:07:12 PM
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Hi All:

Here is a quick howto:

	Grab a usb flash drive, I chose a superstore core micro 2gb cost $11.19
cdn, no endorsement just the closest to my house.

	Insert the drive in to the usb port, mine became usb0 on the desktop,
which is sdb1 in /dev. umount it, umount /dev/sdb1.

	toggle the bootable flag with fdisk, umount again.

	grab: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstal...

	run my mkusbinstall with: mkusbinstall <path/to/iso> /dev/path

This creates a boot-able usb-drive based on the boot-able iso filename
that was given. If you used a stock fedora boot.iso as the source, you
could now boot the flash drive and do any installs except for harddrive
based installs. To preform a "usb drive" based install you would need to
use disc1 as the source and then copy over disc2-5 to the /iso on the
drive. Patches welcome to enable an auto copy of the rest.

With the kickstart file that I use, only about 500 packages are used by
on disc1 and disc2, so I get away with the 2gb drive. If your usb size
is large enough and have a filesystem to support it, I see no reason
that you couldn't use the whole set, or use a dvd as the source.

For XS, the plan is for one cd sized install disk so this should be no
issue then. Just curious if pungi has to produces an iso that is larger
that a cd then this should work anyway. Just can't burn the image to
cdrom, just now it's a "dvd.iso" but still loopback mountable right?
I'll play around later...

Jerry

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> From: "HALL,Brian C" <brian.hall02 at uwimona.edu.jm>
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns
> To: Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu>, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
> Cc: Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au>, XS Devel
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> Good Day All,
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> We are having issues installing the School Server ISO on a usb drive(since 
> the school server doesnt have a cd drive). Is there a link i can use. I 
> went to 
> "http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Installing_from_USB" 
> and tried mkusbinstall OLPC_XS_LATEST.iso /dev/sdb1
> .
>
> When i did that, i got the error: command not found.
>
>
> Could you assist us with this?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brian Hall
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> From: sv3rma at gmail.com [sv3rma at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sameer Verma 
> [sverma at sfsu.edu]
> Sent: 11 June 2011 03:10
> To: Martin Langhoff
> Cc: HALL,Brian C; Sridhar Dhanapalan; XS Devel; Reuben K. Caron
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns
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> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> that doesn't sound pretty. Who did you receive the server from? What
>> deployment are you part of?
>>
>> The server -- can boot from USB or from a CD? Perhaps you can boot
>> from a linux "live" CD or live USB to diagnose?
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>>
>> m
>>
>
> This is one of ours in Jamaica. I shipped the boxes, and it looks like
> Brian didn't get the instructions. I'll take care of it off list.
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
>
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:00 PM, HALL,Brian C
>> <brian.hall02 at uwimona.edu.jm> wrote:
>>> Good Day,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I recently received an OLPC school server. When I booted it, I got the
>>> error: ?Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could anyone assist me with this issue?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Brian Hall
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 4:54 PM
>>> To: Martin Langhoff
>>> Cc: Sridhar Dhanapalan; XS Devel
>>> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Martin Langhoff
>>> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> the XO's WLAN can be the AP
>>>
>>> Note that running hostap is not a trivial endeavour.
>>>
>>> Unless something's changed recently since the last time I looked, the 
>>> XO's
>>> wifi chip doesn't support hostapd.  The best I've been able to kludge
>>> together (back when I used the XO as a portable XS to tote to training
>>> sessions) was a USB-Ethernet adapter on eth1 connected to an old Linksys
>>> AP.  If wifi was available, the XO's WLAN worked as eth0.
>>>
>>> Anna Schoolfield
>>> Birmingham
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