Installing an activity pack: Difference between revisions

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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Activity pack. (Discuss)

Download its zip file.
Unzip it onto the root of a blank USB flash drive.
Insert the USB flash drive into your XO and reboot.
If your machine is not a secure XO (its firmware is unlocked), you must hold the X game key while booting .
When the installation is complete, the XO will shut itself off. Remove the USB key before powering it on.

Notes

The USB flash drive should be formatted with a VFAT file system (FAT16 with long filename support); this is the common format for most USB sticks with capacity up to 2 GB.
- It is important that the USB flash drive have a partition table, and that the VFAT file system be in the first partition. Linux allows you to put a file system directly on the drive itself without a partition table (i.e. "mkfs.vfat /dev/sdi", rather than fdisk and "mkfs.vfat /dev/sdi1"), but then on boot, the XO will panic with an error from mount ("non-zero status code 255").
You can perform steps 1 and 2 on another computer, or if you are familiar with the Linux command line, on the XO in a terminal using wget and unzip.
After step 2, the root of the USB flash drive should contain

 /customization-2
 /boot
 /bundles

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 <noinclude>{{merge|Activity pack}}</noinclude>
 # Download its zip file.
-# Unzip it onto the root of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive USB flash drive].
+# Unzip it onto the root of a blank [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive USB flash drive].
 # Insert the USB flash drive into your XO and [[reboot]].
 # If your machine is not a secure XO (its firmware is unlocked), you must hold the X game key while booting .