Helping out The Aron & Christina Foundation by setting-up and upgrading a series of new OLPC XO-1 laptops…
Sugar Upgrade Notes
- Click on Neighbourhood and find the Wireless connection (a green dot) and connect to it using a password if necessary.
- Click on the Home button and then load up the Terminal activity.
- Type:
su - and then press Enter. - Type:
olpc-update 767, and then press Enter. - You then get a load of fairly meaningless messages on the screen:
Downloading contents of build ''{{:Friends in testing/current image}}''You can pretty much ignore all of this. This part of the process can takes around 20 minutes, or much longer if you have a slow internet connection.
Updating to version hash ''xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx''
Making clean /versions/updates/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Trying irsync_pristine update from rsync://updates.laptop.org/''build-{{:Friends in testing/current image}}''
- Cleaning tree.
- Fetching contents.
- Performing incremental rsync. [Comment: Wait a long time! Could be over an hour depending on your internet connection speed.]
Verifying update.
Installing update in /versions/{pristine,run}/''xxxx'' - At the end of the upgrade, you will either see the words “Installing update in….” or “Update Succeeded!” on the screen.
- Wait for the prompt “-bash-3.2#” and type reboot then press Enter to restart your XO.
- After your XO reboots, the last step is to download the new versions of Activities.
- When the XO boots you will see a bar toward the top of the screen that says “Software Update” and the options being “Cancel”, “Later” and “Check now”. Before you choose “Check now” to update the activities, you must reconnect your XO to the internet. You may see the sign-in box appear in home view. If it does, and it lists your router, you can do it from there. If it doesn’t appear or offers the wrong connection, go to the Neighborhood view and connect from there. Then go back to Home view and then click “Check now” (it’s ok to leave the home view because when you go back the options should still be there). First the XO will check for any updates and then it asks if you’d like to install them. Click “Install selected” to install your newest versions of your activities.
- Congratulations, you’ve upgraded!
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