State of Fedora spin

[Jim Gettys]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 19:26 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:33 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > But with those taken care of, I can get an image built based on rawhide
> > + that kernel that boots.  I then have to drop an xorg.conf in as the
> > driver is busted and doesn't manage to auto-config, but that too should
> > be fairly straight-forward to get fixed (bz#460581).
> 
> Okay, the kernel[1] that I used for this is at
> http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/olpc/kernel/  (rpm + srpm).
> 
> I then took the kickstart that Sebastian had started with and made it
> build on top of the base kickstarts in the spin-kickstarts repo[2] and
> built an image with livecd-creator pointed against today's rawhide.
> With the livecd-iso-to-disk script in the current livecd-tools[3] repo,
> you can do
>    ./tools/livecd-iso-to-disk --xo olpc-gnome.iso /path/to/blkdev
> and get an image that can then be booted on the XO.  If you use a USB
> stick, you'll do
>   boot u:\olpc-usb.fth
> from OpenFirmware; SD card[4] should be
>   boot sd:\olpc-sd.fth
> 
> It then boots up into gdm and slowly manages to log into the desktop.  I
> suspect that backing the persistence on the USB stick/SD card rather
> than in RAM[5] will help, but haven't tried that yet.
> 
> Image can be grabbed for now at
> http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/olpc/olpc-gnome.iso
> 
> Jeremy

Cool!  Thanks, Jermey....  

Note that your milage will vary widely on USB, and if you happened to
pick a slow USB stick you're performance can be dog slow.  Also true for
SD.  The good news is that our hardware is decent for SD (in
particular), and USB2 can be decent speed.  The CAFE chip can drive SD
to > 20MB/second.
                          - Jim


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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child