[IAEP] Recommend boot-helper CD as the first experience with Sugar on a Stick rather then setting the BIOS

[Caroline Meeks]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my opinion, the simpler the feedback, the wider the cross-section
> of users will be from a technically-adept point of view. By that I
> mean we will garner feedback (valuable I think) from non computer
> whizzes. I'm more worried about them. Simplicity of use is I think
> vital to SoaS success.
>
> I fear that many users will encounter difficulties 1) loading a USB
> stick, 2) setting BIOS to boot from it.
>
>
As for #2, I've tried to rearrange the instructions so that a naive user is
encouraged to create a boot-helper CD and use that and the USB for the first
experience as I think that will have a much better first time success rate.
It would be great if people looked over what I've done and improve on it.



>
> Sean
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This is all sounding great to me.
> >
> > Could someone link the wiki page to the FAQ:
> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/FAQ
> >
> > People are sending me emails with hardware reports.  Should I forward
> them
> > to IAEP? Do we want a support-gang type mailing list?  We can hope to put
> up
> > instructions and get people to enter things themselves, but we should
> > prepare for the reality that just sending an email maybe asking a lot for
> > teachers.  Some of them will have never used a wiki before so it could be
> > too hard a first thing to ask of them.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Caroline
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Sascha Silbe
> > <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-iaep at silbe.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 02:51:21PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
> >>
> >>> We can also make use of Semantic Media Wiki to create forms that lead
> >>> into a
> >>> table.
> >>
> >> +1 for that as it's possible to do queries then (instead of manually
> >> scanning the table).
> >>
> >> CU Sascha
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://sascha.silbe.org/
> >> http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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> > Caroline Meeks
> > Solution Grove
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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

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