XO: Snap3 is a step backwards?

[James Laska]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:31 -0400, Blake St. Claire wrote:
> I haven't seen anyone else mention it.
> 
> --overlay-size-mb 512 --swap-size-mb 384 (from
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/Fedora10_On_XO) is too big
> for the 4G SD. I used 384 and 256.
> 
> First time power up I think the kernel had an oops while booting.
> 
> Second time got as far as the login and clicked the Login button.
> After 30 seconds of nothing happening I pressed Ctrl-Alt-F2 and
> switched to text-mode getty on tty2 before the box wedged.
> 
> Third time got past the login (now with  the wrong DPI) and got as far
> as the Appearances Preferences to try to reset the DPI, and also
> started a terminal before the box wedged.
> 
> What do they say about doing the same thing over and over and
> expecting different results?
> 
> Anyone have any better luck with Snap3?

Working okay on my XO, however I read from Ignacio that you may need to
use a smaller swap and overlap when writing the image to the SD card. 

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:37 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> I had to reduce them to 320 and 256 in order to get them to fit.

Does that help?  Any stdout/err messages when writing your SD card?

Thanks,
James
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