XS Community Edition/0.4/Installing/Offline-XO
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Offline Install on XO's - download an image
Prerequisites
(On XO-1 laptops, XSCE remains highly experimental due to fundamental hardware limitations.)
Install Steps
- Download a .zd file from http://build.laptop.org.au/xsce/RC1/ and copy it to a USB stick with at least 2GB of free space.
- Download the lastest(might be updated from time to time) additional zip file and unzip it onto a USB key from http://build.laptop.org.au/xsce/RC1/xs-repo.zip. This will enable completely offline installs
- Install with "fs-update u:\<file>.zd", (at the firmware "ok" prompt, you can list the contents of USB with dir u:\). see also How to install to SD card for instructions on how to install to an external SDcard.)
- Reboot with bye
- login (just press the enter key)
If you need to configure wifi access to the internet:
- telinit 5
- configure WiFi in the neighbourhood view
- open the terminal activity
- type su
- ping google.com
- reboot
- login (just press the enter key)
If you have internet access via an ethernet dongle:
- ping google.com
Then:
- Ensure your usb flashdrive that you unzipped xs-repo.zip to is inserted in the XO
- xs-update
- xs-setup or xs-setup <domain>
- Reboot and inspect
NOTES about Offline Installs
- Stripped out content and a limited set of activities
- ds-backup-client and olpc-update-query are disabled
- TinyCore's xo-custom files
- All of stats' dependencies pre-installed
- Pathagar
- Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) e.g. partial dataset for testing: http://downloads.internet-in-a-box.org/IIAB_QuickStart_Sampler_20130809.tgz
- IIAB, xs-extras, and release-0.4-fixes repo files are pre-installed nothing to add to get newer rpms.
- For a complete list of rpms installed see the *packages.txt in the same directory. Now only 2 rpms (dhcpd and ejabberd) get installed later either online or from the optional usbkey. Warning the installed size is now ~2.4Gb up from ~1.9Gb.