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[AppleIIGuy]

compressed method works thanks

[zimm]

I tried to do this installation but I made a mistake.  the drive with the Raw file on it wasn't empty.  I lost 500 gigs of files.  Is there anything I can do?  thanks -- loser

[OlpcGuy]

How much memory space does Ubuntu take up?

[cruisingjack]

Hi:  I am new to Linux programming but I am computer literate. I have installed an 8GB SD card on my XO and have successfully installed OLPCRoot.raw onto the card.  I am sure it is sucessful since when I do a dir on the SD card it indicates the file name.  Also when I type df -h it shows the card with 1.5G used and 6.2G available.

I have a developer key and type su - to open bash.
I am attempting to edit the SD card on the XO since my SD card reader I use on my PC running Xubuntu will not read the newer high capacity 8GB cards.

Here is where I am stuck:
I am not able to give the partition the proper name using: tune2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1 -L OLPCRoot .  I also used the alternative suggested:  /sbin/tune2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1 -L OLPCRoot to no avail.

The error message I receive is: tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/mmcblk0p1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

Any help will be appreciated and I am sure I'll have more questions after I get past this step.

[teapot]

Hi:  I am new to Linux programming but I am computer literate. I have installed an 8GB SD card on my XO and have successfully installed OLPCRoot.raw onto the card.  I am sure it is sucessful since when I do a dir on the SD card it indicates the file name.

You have COPIED the file to the card. Nothing is installed.

And, of course, this is a very old version, recent one is here: http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2240.msg21169#msg21169

[cruisingjack]

Hi:  I am new to Linux programming but I am computer literate. I have installed an 8GB SD card on my XO and have successfully installed OLPCRoot.raw onto the card.  I am sure it is sucessful since when I do a dir on the SD card it indicates the file name.

You have COPIED the file to the card. Nothing is installed.

And, of course, this is a very old version, recent one is here: http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2240.msg21169#msg21169

Yes, I should have stated copied, not installed.  I'll check the other thread.
Thanks.

[GoremanX]

• Is there an easy way to change the resolution on the machine? The resolution is too high (fine detail) for my aged eyes.

I tried changing the screen resolution through Xfce (XfceMenu -> Settings -> Display Settings), but there was just one resolution, Default.

Typically changing the size of things in X is done via the DPI setting, not the resolution. All changing the resolution will do is make things pixely or blurry because you'll be using a non-native pixel count. But if you tell X that the screen is 8 (or more or less) inches wide, it can typically calculate a new dpi, which makes everything appear larger. This is how I used to do it in Slackware way back when resolution changes were less than obvious.

[Datalore]

The install seemed to be going well, and it booted from the usb drive, but then after a certain point it keeps spawning errors constantly like

[ 345.117971] EXT2-fs error (device sda1): ex2_get_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=191798, block=385038

but sometimes with different numbers.... I could only copy this because of another message:

 * INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

which caused it to wait for a bit before spamming more errors...

Edit:
I have checked the partition with fsck, and it said that it made changes, but the error persisted.

[WestCoastSuccess]

Another noob here...

The olpc.fth linked to in the instructions looks to me like it will boot from the USB _unless_ you push the check mark, and if the check mark is pushed, it'll boot to Sugar 650, correct?

I've gotten as far as booting up the XO with the USB stick in and get the following errors, immediately after the line "EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode":

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/init", line 132, in <module>
  File "/antitheft.py", line 31, in run
  File "/init", line 123, in run_init
  File "/initutil.py", line 360, in boot_xo
  File "runinit.pyx", line 97, in runinit.runinit
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/console'

I can't seem to find these files to see what's happening at those lines.

Any advice would be _most_ appreciated!

[teapot]

Another noob here...

The olpc.fth linked to in the instructions looks to me like it will boot from the USB _unless_ you push the check mark, and if the check mark is pushed, it'll boot to Sugar 650, correct?

I've gotten as far as booting up the XO with the USB stick in and get the following errors, immediately after the line "EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode":

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/init", line 132, in <module>
  File "/antitheft.py", line 31, in run
  File "/init", line 123, in run_init
  File "/initutil.py", line 360, in boot_xo
  File "runinit.pyx", line 97, in runinit.runinit
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/console'

I can't seem to find these files to see what's happening at those lines.

Any advice would be _most_ appreciated!

They are inside ramdisk image.

The error means that it did not find /dev/console file on your drive, so I recommend reinstalling (and use recent version of Ubuntu -- see http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4053 )

[WestCoastSuccess]

PS: Should the instructions include the line:

cp -ra /etc /media/OLPCRoot/

It indicates cd-ing to /media/OLPCRoot/etc but I can't see that /etc was ever created on OLPCRoot (or am I missing something - awfully sleepy...).

[prchakal]

Another noob here...

The olpc.fth linked to in the instructions looks to me like it will boot from the USB _unless_ you push the check mark, and if the check mark is pushed, it'll boot to Sugar 650, correct?

I've gotten as far as booting up the XO with the USB stick in and get the following errors, immediately after the line "EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode":

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/init", line 132, in <module>
  File "/antitheft.py", line 31, in run
  File "/init", line 123, in run_init
  File "/initutil.py", line 360, in boot_xo
  File "runinit.pyx", line 97, in runinit.runinit
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/console'

I can't seem to find these files to see what's happening at those lines.

Any advice would be _most_ appreciated!

They are inside ramdisk image.

The error means that it did not find /dev/console file on your drive, so I recommend reinstalling (and use recent version of Ubuntu -- see http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4053 )

I have this same problem of antitheft.py error, i have download the image two days ago.

What i have to do?