Ben Rothman's XO Setup

After the meet up I went home and typed up a document of every single thing I use to setup up the olpc from wiping it clean to 656. (in other words, every action I do on the olpc to customize it to the way I want it after clearing the memory doing an activated update to update 656.) basicly I did this to save time and work for times where I fill up the drive with junk and/or have any other problems. I have not seen if this works w/ the newest update.

But I digress, heres the txt document:

do whatever steps you want, obviously this is personalized towards me but much of it was learned at the MVCC

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List of all XO setup commands:

all indented text is to be typed into the terminal unless it has a *** in front, then it describes part of an action. after doing most actions a restart of flash (ctrl+alt+erase) is required

HOW TO SAVE TIME TYPING ALL THIS JUNK INTO THE TERMINAL

   ***get a usb mouse and plug it into the XO
   ***open this email in the browse activity
   ***highlight one line and press ctrl+C
   ***switch to the terminal and test that you can type things
   ***press the scroll wheel (its also a button!) and it will paste the line of text
   ***press enter

(lengthy, yes, but impossible to make mistakes)

get 656 onto the XO and clear memory

   (start on another computer)
   ***download http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/656/jffs2/fs.zip
   ***download http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/656/jffs2/os656.img
   ***put both onto a USB drive or SD card (i also throw in a zip file of all the downloaded activities I use to save time)
   ***put the usb/sd into your xo
   ***startup the xo while pressing all for buttons above the power button

Jabber on startup

[if you dont want it on startup then just do the sugar-control-panel line (no su or vi boforehand)]

   vi‭ .xsession

‭ o ‭ sugar-control-panel -s jabber jabber.olpchacks.org

   ‭[ (x) ]
   :wq‭

‭ ctrl+alt+erase

‭Opera

‭ su -

   rpm‭ -vi http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/olpc-544/opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm

‭ exit ‭ mkdir /home/olpc/Activities ‭ cd /home/olpc/Activities ‭ wget http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/olpc/opera-activity.tar.gz ‭ tar xvzf opera-activity.tar.gz ‭ rm opera-activity.tar.gz ‭ exit

‭Flash

‭ su -

   wget flash9048.notlong.com‭

‭ rpm -i flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm ‭ exit

‭Remove click to play in flash

‭ su - ‭ cd /usr/share/activities/Web.activity

   mkdir bak‭

‭ mv agent-stylesheet.css bak ‭ mv clickToView.xml bak ‭ exit

‭===Midnight Commander (file browsing)===

‭ su -

   yum install mc‭

‭ exit

‭===Files to delete===

‭ su - ‭ mc ‭ ***Then hilight the following and press [delete] ‭ ***/usr/share/activities/AcousticMeasure.activity ‭ ***/usr/share/activities/TurtleArtActivity.activity ‭ ***/usr/share/activities/Paint.activity ‭ ***Quit mc ‭ exit

‭Activities to Download

[again, i put these into a zip folder and threw it into my boot SD card(dedicated to serve the boot function) so that I dont need to downloadthem from the XO]

‭ ***Start the Browse Activity ‭ ***Go to the following URLs ‭ ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/8/88/BlockParty-7.xo ‭ ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/a/a6/Simcity-4.xo ‭ ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/a/ad/Implode-2.xo ‭ ***http://www.wadeb.com/Bounce-4.xo ‭ ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/b/b8/Doom-1.xo ‭ ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/1/18/Speak-5.xo ‭ ***http://wiki.laptop.org/images/2/2c/Frotz-2.xo

   Someone whose name i forget was looking into overclocking the XO. How did that go? (overclock means making the processor run faster than it is supposed to at the risk of frying your processor)

I really hope this helps more than it confuses -Ben Rothman