Nepal: Technical Details
This is a meta-page that compiles various technical work going on to support Nepal's OLPC deployments. Expect a certain amount of flux. For the most up-to-date info, check the OLE Nepal blog or e-mail Bryan Berry at bryan at olenepal dot org.
Testing and QA
Logistics
Initial Receipt and Inventory
- At airport, count # of XO's if individually packed
- Upon arrival at office, recount XO's and note any discrepancies. Beware of transport loss. It happens
- Inventory the XO's in a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet should record the XO's serial #, whether it shows any physical damage, or won't boot. Here is a inventory template spreadsheet you can use File:XO-Inventory-template.xls
- If there is physical damage, put a piece of masking tape on the green top lip of the screen and write "physical damage" w/ a red marker.
- In case of damage or not booting, put in the damaged stack, but make sure to mark it with masking tape and red marker.
- Attach a label to the XO that has the Inventory Label as the identifier
- Write the Serial Number on the bottom of the laptop using a black permanent marker
- Type the Serial Number in the speadsheet next to the Inventory Number
- Insert USB key, containing runos.zip and actos.zip, see Procedure for Collecting UUID's and Serial Numbers on the Activation_Key page
- You should see a message like "SHFxxxxxxxx nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn; Laptop data recorded successfully"
- The XO will then reboot, remove the USB key and turn it on again
- Send file to OLPC containing the information needed to get developer keys for each XO to help@laptop.org
- Once you have done this procedure for half of your XO's backup the laptops.dat and inventory spreadsheet (yes, I am paranoid)
