diff --git a/handbook/computing/bulkupdatelaptop.html b/handbook/computing/bulkupdatelaptop.html index 7850625d4..c90a511bc 100644 --- a/handbook/computing/bulkupdatelaptop.html +++ b/handbook/computing/bulkupdatelaptop.html @@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ You can do this entirely on your own if you have access to the expo laptopNote that on a Debian or Ubuntu machine you should normally install the versions that come with the specific distro (e.g. v11 Bulleye for Debian, or Jammy Jellyfish 22.04 for Ubuntu) i.e. install using 'sudo apt install xxx', not by downloading things from the above sites. So installing everything you need should be as simple as:

@@ -108,12 +108,11 @@ You can do this entirely on your own if you have access to the expo laptopCreate a user 'expo'
  • Add user 'expo' to the sudoers list or alternatively use the gui to do the same thing.
  • Log in as user 'expo' again (so that ~/ = /home/expo/) -
  • Set up the expo Gmail account in Firefox
  • Install Firezilla FTP software and download zilla-uploads.xml to configure it
  • Copy ~/.ssh/* from the previous install or from the other expo laptop -
  • Copy ~/expofiles from from the previous install or from the other expo laptop -
  • Run rsync to ensure /expofiles is correctly identical to the server -
  • Configure git as user 'expo laptop' (or 'aziraphale' or 'crowley') - see below, with expo Gmail address +
  • Copy ~/expofiles from from the previous install or from the other expo laptop - this is 40 GB ! +
  • Run rsync to ensure /expofiles is correctly identical to the server - EXPERTS only. It is so, so easy to trash /expofiles/ on the server by getting the fields in the wrong order on the command line. +
  • Configure git as user 'expo laptop' (or 'aziraphale' or 'crowley') - see below, with a dummy expo mail address, see below
  • git clone the four repositories
  • Check that you have a GPS trck editor installed, e.g. GPSprune