[IAEP] Fwd: soas on classmate

[Marten Vijn]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:54 +0200, Marten Vijn wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:59 +1000, Mitchell Seaton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Recently I've been trying to load SoaS
> > (http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas1-200903232259.iso) onto a Classmate-2 laptop that we have here at my work. Following the instructions on the wiki (Sugar on a Stick/Installation) using using live iso to disk script, I created the USB (on a Sony 4GB Stick). 
> > 
> > However, booting from the USB on the Classmate I have the following
> > msg "Missing operating system". I know there are some examples of SoaS
> > working out there in the community I was wondering if there maybe some
> > steps I'm missing. I will try with different USB or SD card shortly. I
> > have yet to try to boot on another machine so far. 
> 
> Try to disconnect the latops battery for some seconds,
> 
> pls let me know if this works,

and try the stick on other devise.

sometimes I also zero the drive:

dd if=/dev/zero of=<drive> bs=1m

or some zero'ing the MBR also helps,

 
dd if=/dev/zero of=<drive> bs=512k count=1


I know 2G sd-card does work on a Classmate.
.
Kind regards,
Marten


> 
> kind regards,
> Marten
> 
> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Mitchell Seaton
> > 
> > 
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