[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Children want Sugar 0.84, for the wrong reason
Bernie Innocenti
bernie at codewiz.org
Sat Mar 13 08:49:11 EST 2010
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 08:33 -0500, Gerald Ardito wrote:
> By the way, how do you upgrade the XOs (we have XO-1s) to .84? This is
> a very big deal for us.
We use a local variant of the F11-XO1 images by Stephen Parrish, signed
with the deployment keys.
The procedure for each laptop is:
(1) backup the lease.sig to a USB stick
("cp /security/lease.sig /media/PENDRIVE")
(2) reboot while pressing all 4 game keys
(3) wait for about 3 minutes to load the image
(4) boot with the USB stick still fitted to re-activate the
laptop
If your laptops are unlocked, you can save steps (1) and (4) and you
don't need a signed build. The procedure would become:
(1) press ESC on boot to get to the ok prompt
(2) type "copy-nand u:\osNN.img"
(3) wait for about 3 minutes to load the image
See my reply to Bert in this same thread for some considerations about
Journal backup/restore.
The scripts I mention in that post are available from our public
repository, but atm I can't reach the office to retrieve the link.
They're really crude scripts, no big deal. It would be really cool if
someone could work on a bootable USB stick which would automatically
perform full backups and restores. Not only it would save time, it would
make students and teachers more autonomous from us techies.
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