[IAEP] Persistant SoaS on Mac Persists!

[Thomas C Gilliard]

On 12/11/2011 02:53 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi Tom and All,
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> After puzzling over the instructions for a while, I decided to just put the SoaS for Mac that Tom sent in, and try to boot from it.  It works!
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Wonderful. : )
Great News

Tom Gilliard
satellit_ on #sugar on IRC

Here is how It is made;
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB

It is also available as a dd .img file
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_1_GB_EFI_Boot_.28MAC.29_USB_Soas-v5-Coconut-USB_.img
> I am running it on my 3+year old MacBook with the old os10.5.8 (Leopard) in its most up to date version. You are right about it not running on a Power PC (just had to try... that is how we found out that eToys to go does work on it).  The Power PC didn't even recognize it.
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> Here are a few notes from the exploring I did:
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> *Persistent storage worked fine!
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> *Record worked fine for voice recordings. Would have liked a shorter time as an option.  I assume there are no photos or videos possible at this time?
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> *Memorize seems to be working and is persistent over several removals and restarts with no problems.
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> *Difficult to get the "frame" to appear. Takes repeated swipes into the upper RH corner to get it to work.
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Try adjusting the bottom slider in "frame" on My settings fully left.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Introduction_to_Sugar_Interface
> *Clock Activity flashed an image for a fraction of a second, but could not get it to work.
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> *Totally unable to connect to the internet.  I see the 3 ad hoc networks but my router doesn't show up at all. No problem connecting under the Mac os or on my iPod so it has to be a problem with SoaS.  Would an ethernet cable to my modem/router solve this? I also removed my password so connection would be easier. I trust my neighbors?
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It should work with a wired cat5 connection. I have not been able to get 
Wireless on a MAC to go either.

A VitualBox Appliance will also work on a MAC
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#v6_Pineapple_2
Download 2 files and "import" them into VirtualBox for OSX
(http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html) 
It is GPL...
> If I were able to connect under SoaS, could I download other Activities to add them to the SoaS stick?  I would really like to include the Labyrinth Activity which is so popular in Latin America and I think would be a "winner" anywhere!
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1-)down load Labyrinth.xo from ASLO
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
with the Mac browser and transfer it to a 2nd USB
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Drag-Drop

2-)download
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#ASLOxo-6 (it is 2.2 GB)
http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/ASLOxo6.2-Contents.txt (to see the 
contents of the DVD)
burn to a DVD and use it to drag-drop install  Labyrinth directly
(The DVD/CD will appear in the frame) when you load it with the EFI 
USB-stick booted.

but with a cat-5 wired connection; the Internet should work fine.
> I haven't been able to get the PC SoaS version working yet because of problems with my eeePC. It hasn't worked right since I removed MS Office earlier this year.  I will call Asus tomorrow and see if I can get it working again.
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> I'll be exploring more in the next few days and report on anything else I find.
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> Caryl
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Have fun. Good luck with your presentation.
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