[IAEP] Mac Woes

[Dave Bauer]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:36, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>
> > Hi...
> >
> > OK, here's the "dumb question" for today.  I am sitting here in the
> > wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest
> > Strawberry Soas for my Mac.
>
> Hi. I haven't had a chance to try booting the Strawberry SoaS on my
> MacBook Pro yet, (us Mac users hate and rarely need to reboot and
> loose application state), but Strawberry works well for me under
> VirtualBox if that's a reasonable, quick, compromise solution.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>

I created a VirtualBox VDI file from strawberry

http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-strawberry-vdi.zip
Here are the instructions http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox

Dave

>
> P.S. happy to describe my basic VirtualBox steps in more detail, but
> it is close to download .iso; run in VB; tell it to boot from a 'CD',
> and point to the downloaded ISO file. Good for demo's and fast testing
> only, as this quickie gives your no state between boots, though that
> does mean you can mess around trying stuff with impunity.
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Dave Bauer
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