anybody load a fresh image from usb ?

[Shukong Ou]

hello, not long after I got my xo, the onboard storage ran short, and
I found that unless youhave at least 20%free space the Record won't
save any more pix or video. Deleting items from the journal helped
some but I only have about 10% free after cleaning out my journal. .

has anyone here reinstalled from usb? as in going from 650 to 653 ?
I'm just too chicken to take the chance of bricking my xo before even
a month has passed. so I am more willing to take a chance if some
else has successfully reinstalled from usb...

any daring folks out there ?

[Tom Barringer]

Yep, I've done this. No significant problems. Get a developer key first.

[Jon Dreyer]

Tom Barringer wrote:
> Yep, I've done this. No significant problems. Get a developer key first.

I did this a few times, out of necessity ("near-brick
experiences"). I think I used these instructions:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activated_Upgrade

No developer key involved, but I should probably get one
anyway. Where is that info?

Other upgrade methods are better if you are not starting with
a near-brick and want to retain some data:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update

[Tom Barringer]

Developer key info is at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys .

I was able to upgrade the olpc-update command and download build 653
without it, but I was unable to *complete* the installation and boot the
new build without a developer key. I am told that others did not have this
experience. It's possibly a timing issue -- that when I got build 653, it
had not been marked as a non-developer upgrade yet, and that since then it
has been; all I know is that I was unable to complete the process without
the key. (This was around Jan 1.)