Using the XO with the gnome image

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:10 -0400, Josh Bressers wrote:
> So previously I voiced my concern over getting gnome to run on the XO.  I'm
> not not convinced it's a good idea, but here's how to make it work.  My SD
> card has a 512M swap partition and a 2 Gig overlay (I have the 4 Gig card).

The general hope is that you can run the live image that best suits your
needs and requirements.  

> If you don't fix the image, the machine will eat up too much RAM and
> won't run, so you need to use an overlay file so the changes stick between
> reboots.

As it turns out, memory isn't the biggest problem.  A bigger problem
actually is the compression from squashfs.  I've got an update pending
for livecd-iso-to-disk (already on my people page, but not in git) to
copy over the raw ext3fs.img instead.  The difference this makes is
pretty staggering.

> At the very least, turn off setroubleshoot, that's the one really eat a lot of RAM.

As of snap1, setroubleshoot is generally off on the live images (though
for those installing a live image to a regular machine, you'll get
normal setroubleshoot functionality after rebooting)

Jeremy