New SoaS [XO-1] build soas70

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com> wrote:

> From: Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>
> Subject: Re: New SoaS [XO-1] build soas70
> To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> Cc: fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 4:06 PM
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:49:44PM
> +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:33:00AM -0700, Yioryos
> Asprobounitis wrote:
> > > It is apparent that the script that generates the
> "removable" builds
> > > is not making the olpc.fth file.
> > > [...]
> > > BTW various olpc.fth files failed with kernel
> panic and inability to find the boot device.
> > 
> > Not making a /boot/olpc.fth or making a useless one?
> I'll fix it up.
> > It's pretty odd, though, since the removable builds
> are made from
> > exactly the same directory tree as the .img files.
> 
> Though it's not hard, I managed to fool myself here: the
> removable
> images are not XO builds (though they were at one
> point).  They are
> for "normal" SoaS usage.
> 
> It's only a little odd for me to put an olpc.fth on the
> "non-XO"
> installs, and only a small increment in the already
> ridiculous disk
> space usage to make both XO and non-XO .removable images.
> 
> Can you offer any guidance as to what you'd use?

Well, I do not think that non-XO removable images are needed for soasXXxo builds. 
XO removable builds are very handy since they allow kids to "play" with the XO and dads/moms with testing :-) 

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