I am excited about trying this. I manage a deployment of 140 XO-1's in a school in Westchester County, New York and have really wanted to upgrade our software from the official build.<br>How do I "disable security?"<br>
<br>Many thanks.<br>Gerald<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Thomas C Gilliard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Caryl;<br>
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I just bought a G1G1 XO-1 on e-bay for testing.<br>
* I requested and downloaded a developer key<br>
* disabled security (very important!)<br>
* installed f11-xo-1-py (fedora 11 gnome and sugar)<br>
<a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.img" target="_blank">http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.img</a><br>
<a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.crc" target="_blank">http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.crc</a><br>
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This is great software and expands the capabilities of the OLPC XO-1<br>
that bernie has developed for the Paraguay deployment (english and spanish)<br>
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In the Gnome desktop terminal program on the XO-1:<br>
su<br>
yum install liveusb-creator<br>
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liveusb-creator runs using 2 USB sticks:<br>
1-) Target USB 2GB or larger<br>
2-) USB with Blueberry/strawberry.iso's (downloaded on another PC)<br>
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>DO NOT DOWNLOAD soas.iso's to the XO-1<<br>
It has too small a working solid state HD to do this.<br>
This is very similar to running a 3 stick solution on a EeePC900<br>
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The XO-1 is much slower (50min for Blueberry soas) than the EeePC900;<br>
but it makes Soas Live USB's fine.<br>
(Plus they boot on the XO-1, just leave them inserted and do a shutdown<br>
and restart.)<br>
I just did this with the soas-2-blueberry.iso and it boots on the XO-1<br>
plus on the EeePC900.<br>
(A EeePC900 livecd-iso-to-disk script created live usb will not boot on<br>
the XO-1)<br>
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This could be a nice way to demonstrate sugar and the OLPC XO-1<br>
while it makes and runs Soas Live USB's<br>
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Tom Gilliard<br>
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Caryl Bigenho wrote:<br>
> Thanks Tom for the confirmation! I suspected it might work like that, but not being a PC person, I wasn't sure.<br>
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> Sounds like a "piece of cake."<br>
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> Caryl<br>
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> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:08:38 -0700<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a><br>
> CC: <a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:support-gang@laptop.org">support-gang@laptop.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [SoaS] "SoaS For Dummies?"<br>
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> Caryl Bigenho wrote:<br>
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> Hi Bert, Tom, and All,<br>
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> In case you are all wondering why I want to make this so easy, remember that while I am sort of a "closet techie" and could learn to do all these fancy work-arounds, I also have many years experience working with and training other educators who are very shy about using computers.<br>
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> For most of them it has to be very simple and work almost as a "plug-'n-play." Even the boot-helper disk is a stretch, but I think it is doable with some very clear step-by-step instructions. It needs to be easy, and hopefully fun, with a high probability of success.<br>
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> Bert wrote:<br>
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> The iso file is a "CD image". ISO is short for "ISO 9660", a.k.a. "CDFS (Compact Disc File System)". It is a file system designed for CDs, which is read-only.<br>
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> So, I could save money and just use an image on a cd, but unfortunately the live CD will not boot on a MacBook. It needs a boot helper cd to run the usb stick version and there is only one optical drive on the machine.<br>
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> Probably about 50% of the teachers will have Macs.<br>
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> And, Tom suggested using Virtual Box:<br>
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> I really didn't want to use the Virtual Box again. I did that with an early version of Strawberry. I think the Virtual Box would be a deal breaker for a lot of teachers, whereas a usb version with the boot helper cd should be quite acceptable and easy to use. That is why I was hoping to get a usb version that could be used on both PCs and Macs.<br>
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> After all the advice I got from you folks, I ordered a refurbished eeePC 900 with Windows XP today. It will arrive Monday. I chose to get one with Windows XP because the Fedora Live USB Creator seems to be the easiest route to success... sort of "SoaS for Dummies!"<br>
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> So... according to the instructions at <<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Blueberry_Instructions" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Blueberry_Instructions</a>> you download the blueberry image while in the LiveUSB Creator. Rather than downloading all over again, can I just plug in one of my usb sticks with SoaS (created on the Mac) and use it? Or could I download it to the eeePC once and use it there? What would be the easiest, most fool-proof way to do this?<br>
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> Caryl;<br>
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> YOU DO NOT NEED external CD to do this:<br>
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> * Copy-paste the <Blueberry.iso>file from the SugarCreation Kit<br>
> CD onto an empty USB inserted in your MAC<br>
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> * transfer the .iso to your EeePC900 by inserting that USB into the<br>
> EeePC900 and (drag - drop/copy-paste) the .iso to the XP Desktop.<br>
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> * Install Liveusb-creator for Windows: (See attached .png file)<br>
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> <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/</a><br>
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> * Use Liveusb-creator for windows to make a soas USB with it.<br>
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> * Do not do a Download again. use left select box (use existing live<br>
> CD/ Browse) to find the blueberry.iso on the XP Desktop<br>
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> * Insert a new target USB (2GB fat16) into EeePC900 ad see it appear<br>
> in Target Device window<br>
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> * move slider to set persistence storage (Max it )<br>
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> *Create Live USB....: )<br>
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> Very simple<br>
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> You can repeat this process for as many USB sticks that you want.<br>
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> Tom Gilliard<br>
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> satellit<br>
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> note:<br>
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> If you get a message in graphical window :"... reset mbr"<br>
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> exit the running graphical liveusb-creator<br>
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> and start windows terminal<br>
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> enter "liveusb-creator --reset-mbr"<br>
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> it will restart graphical liveusb-creator using this extra command.<br>
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> I do plan to purchase an optical drive as well, so I could put the image on cd. I could probably pick one up tomorrow or Sunday at Fry's so I would have it when the eeePC arrives Monday.<br>
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> If the CD/DVD will work for accessing the files in the LiveUSB Creator process, I could make a mini-version of Tom's Soas Creation Kit with just a few files and hand it out at InfoTech. I would probably just include the blueberry iso file, the boot-helper file, and maybe some instructions in a text file. What else would be good to include on this "SoaS For Dummies" disk? Remember KISS.<br>
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> Thanks for helping get this ready for the "Big Time!"<br>
> Caryl<br>
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