(One Laptop per child) OLPC

Neat!

I had no idea you could download the image file for OLPC - I might give it a try...

[edit] OK - I tried it and I have the same issues with the screen resolution - I did some searching and apparently there is some strange resolution for these things. 1200 x 900 @ 200 dpi - not sure what that means on a MBP, but it refuses to go to full screen, and in windowed mode, it is bigger than my screen - this makes using it a pain...

I like what I see - so if anyone out there can figure out how to do this - I would like to mess around with it. I tried all kinds of resolutions and nothing worked.
 
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Me too

dotcomjunkie said:
I had no idea you could download the image file for OLPC - I might give it a try...

I like what I see - so if anyone out there can figure out how to do this - I would like to mess around with it. I tried all kinds of resolutions and nothing worked.
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I can run it. I think I got it from redhat as a tar.bz file, must have migrated a vm build, if my speed download records are correct. Had it going months ago, but it's so basic I left it. I think the web browser worked then, but now it won't - in parallels. Can't connect. The screen is about half the size of my imac 20", but some functions don't fit properly onscreen: overlap the edges. on Fusion I can connect to web, but the screen size is even smaller, about 1/4 screen. The draw program [?] won't fit within the screen again: this prob is even worse on Fusion than on Parallels. Best thing about it is it boots up much faster than other linuxes: but then it's only a cut-down linux.

Peter
 
PMinAU said:
Oh OK I see the problem now. I was using a much earlier build. Tried to run a livecd from http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/build1-20070403_1732/livecd/ to download the livecd. This on first boot displayed garbage, then subsequent boots bombed. :(
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I downloaded the latest bz2 file from redhat

http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/development/LATEST-STABLE-BUILD/devel_ext3/

in the same area as above, and followed the instructions at

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation#QEMU_on_Linux

In my case, the locations were as follows

bzcat ~/Desktop/olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-385-20070406_2314-devel_ext3.img.bz2 | dd of=/Users/peter/Library/Parallels/otherlin/otherlin.hdd

Check locations of vm hdd's, and make sure you rename your vm to fit whatever you are putting in the terminal. I found that I get an error message or two when I first booted, but ignore those. Screen size shows as 1024x768 I think and the screen was not clipped. Browser connection seemed to still not work.
Peter
 
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