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== tinycore 2.8 with GUI for XO-1 and XO-1.5 == |
== tinycore 2.8 with GUI for XO-1 and XO-1.5 == |
Revision as of 23:11, 13 November 2011
Tiny Core Linux is a minimal Linux distribution, designed for on-demand software loading. This page describes builds of Tiny Core Linux for the OLPC XO-1 and XO-1.5. For more information on Tiny Core Linux, see http://tinycorelinux.com
People involved:
- James Cameron, does microcore builds,
- Yioryos Asprobounitis, does tinycore with GUI builds,
microcore 3.4 for XO-1 and XO-1.5
Announcing a build of Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5.
Useful for testing and diagnosis without touching the internal storage. Added recently are combined XO-1 and XO-1.5 support, a few scripts for backing up, restoring, and reverting laptops.
Features
- based on Tiny Core Linux 3.4 microcore variant, configured for a root shell in text mode, with additional shells on demand,
- uses the OLPC kernel, for hardware support, based on the kernel from OLPC OS 10.1.3 build os860,
- includes the wireless firmware shipped with OLPC builds, and binary redistribution of wireless and some filesystem tools from the OLPC builds,
- includes xo-backup, xo-repart, and xo-restore scripts, (these may be destructive, look at them before you use them),
- includes reversion server and client, for rapidly undoing filesystem changes made by laptop use, in test collections or shared classrooms.
Downloads
- XO-1 and XO-1.5, microcore-3.4-xo-2011-01-18.tar (15 MB) (md5sum b2b69b4b2c73e713d9b6c062d627f780)
Prepare USB Drive
- select a USB drive of at least 128 MB capacity, (it may have either a FAT or ext2 filesystem),
Linux - GNOME and Firefox
- insert the USB drive,
- click on the tar file link above, and a dialog window will appear asking you what you want done with the download,
- accept the default to open it in Archive Manager, and the Archive Manager window will appear,
- click on Extract, and a dialog window will appear asking you where to extract to,
- click on the USB drive in the Places list, then click on the Extract button, a dialog window will appear to tell you it worked,
- close the dialog window,
- close the Archive Manager window,
- close the Downloads window,
- eject the USB drive.
Linux - Terminal
- download the tar file using the link above, to the USB drive:
cd /media/FRED wget ${URL}
- extract the tar file, at the top of the USB drive:
cd /media/FRED tar xf microcore-3.4-xo-2011-01-18.tar
- eject the USB drive:
umount /media/FRED
Mac OS X
- insert the USB drive,
- control-click on the link above, select Download Linked File As ..., and a Save As dialog will appear,
- change Where to the name of the USB drive, usually Untitled, then click on Save, the dialog will go away,
- switch tasks to Finder, display the USB drive,
- double-click on the tar file, and the contents will be expanded, a new folder boot will be created,
- delete the tar file if you like, it is not required further,
- eject the USB drive.
Windows
- download the tar file,
- insert the USB drive,
- use WinZip or other operating system features to expand it onto the USB drive,
- eject the USB drive.
Prepare laptop
- ensure the laptop is unsecured, or sign the USB drive with your deployment keys,
- insert the USB drive into the laptop,
Boot laptop
- turn on the laptop, and the USB drive will be automatically read,
- after a very short wait you will see the Tiny Core Linux system prompt:
root@box:~#
Tiny Core Linux is now ready for your commands.
Configure wireless
- configure wireless manually:
iwlist eth0 scan iwconfig eth0 essid network
- a DHCP client is in the background waiting to act when a network interface comes up, it may take a few seconds,
Installing additional utilities
- additional utilities needed for a task can be installed:
su -c 'tce-load -wi rsync' tc
See the Tiny Core Linux documentation for more detail.
Additional shells
- additional shells can be started using Alt/F2, username tc.
Access to XO-1 filesystem
- you can mount and investigate the XO's JFFS2 flash filesystem, for example:
cat /proc/mtd mkdir /mnt/root mount -t jffs2 mtd0 /mnt/root
Access to XO-1.5 filesystem
- you can mount and investigate the XO's eMMC or microSD filesystems, for example:
cat /proc/partitions mkdir /mnt/boot /mnt/root mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/boot mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/root
tinycore 2.8 with GUI for XO-1 and XO-1.5
In January 2010 a version based on microcore 2.8 was announced for both the XO-1 and XO 1.5.
Ready version of Tiny Core Linux for the XO-1 are available here and instructions for installation (for tc_xo_mm) here
tinycore_xo is the minimal installation with just Xfbdev for display driver
tc_xo_with_apps adds a file manager, basic applications and Opera web browser
tc_xo_mm adds sound, audio and video players
tc_xo_X adds Xorg and functioning game keys
tc-xo_01 in 3 flavors is now available. See the build announcement for more
The tc-xo_02 based on tinycore v2.10 and unmodified OLPC kernel is now available. See the v02 build announcement for more
For further discussion of this variant check this forum thread
References:
- Tiny Core Linux http://www.tinycorelinux.com/
- mktinycorexo script http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/mktinycorexo/
- mktinycorexo script git repository
git clone http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/mktinycorexo/.git