Comments on: Regular Linux desktops on the XO

By: Morad

Morad — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:24:25 +0000

Looks easy enough, but I am getting error messages, perhaps I am doing something wrong? I want to create an Intrepid system and followed the instructions (first installed the SD card from the Intrepid alpha 4 live cd, then booted on an Ubuntu 8.04 system to apply your patch). However when I execute the sd_fixup command, after checking out the files, error messages start to appear, as follows:

…
Checking out files: 100% (8671/8671), done.
HEAD is now at cc866cf… OLPC: psmouse: don’t race with irq/resync handlers when recalibrating
make: Entering directory `/home/morad/XO-alt-distro/build/kernel’
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:107:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
… (many more error messages, ends with make kerner error 512)

By: jimson

jimson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:38:57 +0000

I don’t suppose you’ve noticed that suspending and resuming with any of these breaks. A half-assed install like this is useless.

By: sparc

sparc — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:23:10 +0000

@bronson: yes .. you can use USB

By: gNewSense

gNewSense — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:30:00 +0000

I’d like to run gNewSense on the XO-1, but I’d prefer to use the gNewSense kernel as all of the non-free parts have been removed.

Is there a way to make the gNewSense kernel run on the OLPC?

Thanks.

By: Jim Gettys

Jim Gettys — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:50:38 +0000

It will take a different olpc.fth file for booting off of usb. Make the obvious changes….

By: bronson

bronson — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:51:53 +0000

What about using a USB drive? The XO has USB ports, can we use them for the install?

Thanks for your hard work, I’ll be following closely.

By: Donnie Berkholz

Donnie Berkholz — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:14:10 +0000

Gentoo that baby up! Obviously not compiling directly on it … distcc or nfs chrooting… would love to see some performance testing on a low-spec machine.

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By: loki

loki — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:24:53 +0000

That’s really nice stuff! Keep up the good work.
Just one question: Will I need the 4GB SD-card no matter what or would a smaller one suffice for the upcoming install methods?

By: Jeremy Katz

Jeremy Katz — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:32:01 +0000

We should really just make it so you can use the live image directly just like livecd-iso-to-disk already works.

I’ll probably start prodding at it some in the next day or two as I think that my life may be getting a little saner.