Installing an activity pack

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1. Download its zip file.
2. Unzip it onto the root of a USB flash drive.
3. Insert the USB flash drive into your XO and reboot.
4. If your machine is not a secure XO (its firmware is unlocked), you must hold the X game key while booting .
5. 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