diff --git a/solo-builder/alt_sync.sh b/solo-builder/alt_sync.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..617d54d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solo-builder/alt_sync.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# alternative to the 'sync' tool, which puts stuff in /solo-build, for now we'll use /solo-build-alt
+sudo mkdir /solo-build-alt
+sudo chown vagrant /solo-build-alt
+cd /solo-build-alt
+
+echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+mkdir -p sources/poky
+git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky sources/poky 2>&1 |  grep -v 'fatal'
+cd sources/poky
+git fetch
+git checkout bee7e3756adf70edaeabe9d43166707aab84f581
+cd ../..
+
+echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+mkdir -p sources/meta-fsl-arm
+git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-fsl-arm sources/meta-fsl-arm 2>&1 |  grep -v 'fatal'
+cd sources/meta-fsl-arm
+git fetch
+git checkout af392c22bf6b563525ede4a81b6755ff1dd2c1c6
+cd ../..
+
+echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+mkdir -p sources/meta-openembedded
+git clone git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded sources/meta-openembedded 2>&1 |  grep -v 'fatal'
+cd sources/meta-openembedded
+git fetch
+git checkout eb4563b83be0a57ede4269ab19688af6baa62cd2
+cd ../..
+
+echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+mkdir -p sources/base
+git clone git://github.com/OpenSolo/3dr-yocto-bsp-base sources/base 2>&1 |  grep -v 'fatal'
+cd sources/base
+git fetch
+git checkout master
+cd ../..
+cp sources/base/README.md .
+cp sources/base/setup-environment .
+
+echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+mkdir -p sources/meta-3dr
+git clone git://github.com/OpenSolo/meta-3dr sources/meta-3dr 2>&1 |  grep -v 'fatal'
+cd sources/meta-3dr
+git fetch
+git checkout master
+cd ../..
+
+echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+mkdir -p sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra
+git clone git://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm-extra sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra 2>&1 |  grep -v 'fatal'
+cd sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra
+git fetch
+git checkout 07ad83db0fb67c5023bd627a61efb7f474c52622
+cd ../..
+
+echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+mkdir -p sources/meta-fsl-demos
+git clone git://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-demos sources/meta-fsl-demos 2>&1 |  grep -v 'fatal'
+cd sources/meta-fsl-demos
+git fetch
+git checkout 5a12677ad000a926d23c444266722a778ea228a7
+cd ../..
+
+echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+mkdir -p sources/meta-browser
+git clone git://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser sources/meta-browser 2>&1 |  grep -v 'fatal'
+cd sources/meta-browser
+git fetch
+git checkout fc3969f63bda343c38c40a23f746c560c4735f3e
+cd ../..
+
+echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+mkdir -p sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release
+git clone git://git.freescale.com/imx/meta-fsl-bsp-release sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release 2>&1 |  grep -v 'fatal'
+cd sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release
+git fetch
+git checkout dora_3.10.17-1.0.0_GA
+cd ../..
+cp sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release/imx/tools/fsl-setup-release.sh .
diff --git a/solo-builder/builder.sh b/solo-builder/builder.sh
index 38c0831..8b910a7 100755
--- a/solo-builder/builder.sh
+++ b/solo-builder/builder.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ GIT_BRANCH=master
 BUILD_MACHINE=both
 
 # Check if the build directory is there. If not, setup steps were skipped or messed up.
-if [ ! -d "/solo-build" ]; then
+if [ ! -d "/solo-build-alt" ]; then
   echo "No build directory. Did you skip all the other steps?"
   exit 1
 fi
@@ -47,15 +47,9 @@ case "$choice" in
 esac
 echo
 
+cd /solo-build-alt
 #Do it.
-cd /solo-build
-repo init -u https://github.com/$GIT_ACCOUNT/$GIT_REPO.git -b $GIT_BRANCH
-if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]
-then
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-repo sync --force-sync
+/vagrant/alt_sync.sh
 
 if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]
 then
@@ -71,7 +65,7 @@ then
 fi
 
 #TIP: how to build just one bit, such as the pixhawk firmware from OpenSolo/meta-3dr/recipes-firmware/pixhawk/pixhawk-firmware_1.3.1.bb :
-#assuming you've run the 'export MACHINE...' and 'source ./setup...' commands first, and are in /solo-build/build/ folder as a result:
+#assuming you've run the 'export MACHINE...' and 'source ./setup...' commands first, and are in /solo-build-alt/build/ folder as a result:
 #bitbake -c clean pixhawk-firmware
 #bitbake pixhawk-firmware
 #or verbose:
@@ -110,16 +104,16 @@ NEW_DIR=/vagrant/"completed_$(date +%F_%H-%M)"
 mkdir -p $NEW_DIR
 cd $NEW_DIR
 
-cp /solo-build/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/imx6solo-3dr-1080p/3dr-solo.tar.gz $NEW_DIR
+cp /solo-build-alt/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/imx6solo-3dr-1080p/3dr-solo.tar.gz $NEW_DIR
 md5sum 3dr-solo.tar.gz > 3dr-solo.tar.gz.md5
 
-cp /solo-build/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/imx6solo-3dr-artoo/3dr-controller.tar.gz $NEW_DIR
+cp /solo-build-alt/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/imx6solo-3dr-artoo/3dr-controller.tar.gz $NEW_DIR
 md5sum 3dr-controller.tar.gz > 3dr-controller.tar.gz.md5
 
 ls -lh $NEW_DIR
 
 echo
 echo "All build files located in below directories of the Vagrant virtual machine (squashfs, uImage, kernel, u-boot, dtb file, initramfs, rootfs.cpio, etc)"
-echo /solo-build/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/imx6solo-3dr-1080p/
-echo /solo-build/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/imx6solo-3dr-artoo/
+echo /solo-build-alt/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/imx6solo-3dr-1080p/
+echo /solo-build-alt/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/imx6solo-3dr-artoo/