as hes not online, while i am waiting for him to pick his machine up, i can connect it to live and run any MS updates on it.
but when its back at his (non-online) house, will this:
http://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/back...ility.htm#disc also work if i burn him the update for him to run, or is that just the compatiblity update for xbox 1 games and not dashboard updates (like the upcoming "install games to hdd" update).