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#345 Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files

mavrothal

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April 06, 2009, 12:26:18 AM

Quote from: jh0lland on April 05, 2009, 11:55:41 PM

Any thoughts on where I ought to look for the problem?

Since you can not boot from the internal NAND I would suggest to clean install os767 first.
Get your developers key installed again.
Then unless you specifically want Ubuntu 7.10, try the latest Ubuntu installation (8.10)


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#346 Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files

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April 28, 2009, 11:29:50 AM

Question, when I attempt to get the 8.1 Ubuntu files via torrent I get a 23K file with a "txt" suffix and that is all. Where can I find a copy of Ubuntu Intrepid for OLPC?
Thanks.
Joe


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#347 Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files

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April 28, 2009, 12:59:07 PM

Quote from: jh0lland on April 28, 2009, 11:29:50 AM

Question, when I attempt to get the 8.1 Ubuntu files via torrent I get a 23K file with a "txt" suffix and that is all. Where can I find a copy of Ubuntu Intrepid for OLPC?
Thanks.
Joe

IF you download this file http://mars.illtel.denver.co.us/~abelits/torrents/OLPCFiles-intrepid-20081130.tar.bz2.torrent with you web browser to your e.g. desktop you get a 23kb torrent file. If you open it with a bittorrent client, you download a 292 MB gziped file. It takes some time to download but is OK. I just tried it. If you do not, you are doing something wrong.
What machine/os/browser/bittorrent client, are you using to do this job?
What directory you download to (space, permissions)?


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#348 Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files

jh0lland

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April 28, 2009, 02:12:53 PM

Thanks, I got it.
Joe


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#349 Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files

haihoa

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June 07, 2009, 08:09:50 AM

I have what might turn out as the most stupid questions yet posted:

After I download the torrent, do I "un-RAR the file and place all the folders and program into one big file under the name of the .tar, or do I leave it in it's compressed form and put that on the USB "flash" dvice? I've tried i both ways, usint the raw or compressed .tar "as is" on the USB, as well as the the expanded files. Neither seem to work.

Thanks, but I thought I was following everything to the "T," but with still no luck.