[Server-devel] XSCE 0.2 on XO-1

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Fri Mar 8 14:32:11 EST 2013


On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 10:52 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote:
> For what it's worth (and me not giving a rodent's behind) contrary to
> popular consensus, I ran the XSCE instructions
> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2/Installing)
> on a XO-1. A couple of attempts ran out of space, so I restarted with
> a 12.1.0 image and removed /home/olpc/Library and emptied
> /home/olpc/Activities, except for Browse and Terminal (Browse for the
> cloud, and Terminal for everything else).
> 
> On the third run, it ran all the way, and now manages to provide me
> with network activities. erlang/ejabberd is running. So are squid,
> avahi, dhcpd, named, and dhclient. httpd isn't so I'll peek in and see
> why. Not quite sure what else to do/check to see how it works. Does it
> have a web UI? If so, didn't spot that in the instructions.
> 
> df -h tells me that rootfs mounted on / has 155M available. Perhaps
> getting rid of GNOME etc. will free up more space.
> 
> Why did I do it? Short answer: Because I can. Longish answer: I would
> like to see a common methodology of installation and provisioning of
> services on all platforms, irrespective of form factor or CPU arch. So
> far, it's promising.
> 
> cheers,
> Sameer

Maybe you can install a SD-card in the external slot and run the OS from
there, that should take care of the space constringent.

Jerry





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