[IAEP] soas install to hard disk

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 11 Jun 2009, at 10:08, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm forwarding this to some people who I heard yesterday in IRC
>> discussing this issue.
>
> Yea, FWIW I had a quick go as a test case trying to see if it was
> possible to install Soas booted from a USB stick onto the XO nand. I
> was doubtful it was going to work (due to the XO custom hardware), but
> I didn't get too far anyway as the current Soas does not have
> anaconda; and trying a yum install it got close to complete before the
> XO went OOM and locked up.
>
> I may try again in Virtual Box.

I have SoaS-2-20090506 running in a VMDK image in Virtual Box. I'm
doing my lesson development on it, since it has version 51 of Turtle
Art and is otherwise more advanced than the other versions of Sugar I
have tried. See Gravity for Ten-Year-Olds, based on an Alan Kay
presentation.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/0e/Gravity.odt

I'm going to test the June 19th version tomorrow.

> --Gary
>
>> If anyone has had success installing SoaS to disk and could share
>> their experiences, would be great.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:28, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 09:21, Ashar Iqbal<s.ashar.iqbal at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I have soas2 beta dated 14 April burned to a cd and booting/working
>>>> fine on a PC.  I now want to install the software onto the hard
>>>> disk -
>>>> cd is slow and temporary. hd would be faster and more permanent.
>>>>
>>>> I could run soas off a USB, but since the PC will be dedicated to
>>>> running soas it makes more sense to use the hd.
>>>
>>> Hi Ashar,
>>>
>>> may be easier/better to download an official Fedora 11 image and
>>> install it to your hard drive? Then you can install Sugar and use
>>> that
>>> instead of GNOME.
>>>
>>> But it may be possible to install a Soas2 image to the hard disk with
>>> the command 'anaconda', though I haven't tried it myself.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Tomeu
>>>
>>>> Ashar
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