I am excited about trying this. I manage a deployment of 140 XO-1's in a school in Westchester County, New York and have really wanted to upgrade our software from the official build. How do I "disable security?" Many thanks. Gerald <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Thomas C Gilliard <<a href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Caryl; I just bought a G1G1 XO-1 on e-bay for testing. * I requested and downloaded a developer key * disabled security (very important!) * installed f11-xo-1-py (fedora 11 gnome and sugar) <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.img" target="_blank">http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.img</a> <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.crc" target="_blank">http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.crc</a> This is great software and expands the capabilities of the OLPC XO-1 that bernie has developed for the Paraguay deployment (english and spanish) In the Gnome desktop terminal program on the XO-1: su yum install liveusb-creator liveusb-creator runs using 2 USB sticks: 1-) Target USB 2GB or larger 2-) USB with Blueberry/strawberry.iso's (downloaded on another PC) >DO NOT DOWNLOAD soas.iso's to the XO-1< It has too small a working solid state HD to do this. This is very similar to running a 3 stick solution on a EeePC900 The XO-1 is much slower (50min for Blueberry soas) than the EeePC900; but it makes Soas Live USB's fine. (Plus they boot on the XO-1, just leave them inserted and do a shutdown and restart.) I just did this with the soas-2-blueberry.iso and it boots on the XO-1 plus on the EeePC900. (A EeePC900 livecd-iso-to-disk script created live usb will not boot on the XO-1) This could be a nice way to demonstrate sugar and the OLPC XO-1 while it makes and runs Soas Live USB's Tom Gilliard satellit Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Thanks Tom for the confirmation! I suspected it might work like that, but not being a PC person, I wasn't sure. > > Sounds like a "piece of cake." > > Caryl > > Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:08:38 -0700 > From: <a href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a> > To: <a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a> > CC: <a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:support-gang@laptop.org">support-gang@laptop.org</a> > Subject: Re: [SoaS] "SoaS For Dummies?" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > Hi Bert, Tom, and All, > > In case you are all wondering why I want to make this so easy, remember that while I am sort of a "closet techie" and could learn to do all these fancy work-arounds, I also have many years experience working with and training other educators who are very shy about using computers. > > For most of them it has to be very simple and work almost as a "plug-'n-play." Even the boot-helper disk is a stretch, but I think it is doable with some very clear step-by-step instructions. It needs to be easy, and hopefully fun, with a high probability of success. > > Bert wrote: > > The iso file is a "CD image". ISO is short for "ISO 9660", a.k.a. "CDFS (Compact Disc File System)". It is a file system designed for CDs, which is read-only. > > So, I could save money and just use an image on a cd, but unfortunately the live CD will not boot on a MacBook. It needs a boot helper cd to run the usb stick version and there is only one optical drive on the machine. > > Probably about 50% of the teachers will have Macs. > > And, Tom suggested using Virtual Box: > > I really didn't want to use the Virtual Box again. I did that with an early version of Strawberry. I think the Virtual Box would be a deal breaker for a lot of teachers, whereas a usb version with the boot helper cd should be quite acceptable and easy to use. That is why I was hoping to get a usb version that could be used on both PCs and Macs. > > After all the advice I got from you folks, I ordered a refurbished eeePC 900 with Windows XP today. It will arrive Monday. I chose to get one with Windows XP because the Fedora Live USB Creator seems to be the easiest route to success... sort of "SoaS for Dummies!" > > So... according to the instructions at <<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Blueberry_Instructions" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Blueberry_Instructions</a>> you download the blueberry image while in the LiveUSB Creator. Rather than downloading all over again, can I just plug in one of my usb sticks with SoaS (created on the Mac) and use it? Or could I download it to the eeePC once and use it there? What would be the easiest, most fool-proof way to do this? > > > > Caryl; > > YOU DO NOT NEED external CD to do this: > > * Copy-paste the <Blueberry.iso>file from the SugarCreation Kit > CD onto an empty USB inserted in your MAC > > * transfer the .iso to your EeePC900 by inserting that USB into the > EeePC900 and (drag - drop/copy-paste) the .iso to the XP Desktop. > > > > * Install Liveusb-creator for Windows: (See attached .png file) > > <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/</a> > > * Use Liveusb-creator for windows to make a soas USB with it. > > * Do not do a Download again. use left select box (use existing live > CD/ Browse) to find the blueberry.iso on the XP Desktop > > * Insert a new target USB (2GB fat16) into EeePC900 ad see it appear > in Target Device window > > * move slider to set persistence storage (Max it ) > > *Create Live USB....: ) > > Very simple > > > > You can repeat this process for as many USB sticks that you want. > > > > Tom Gilliard > > satellit > > --------------------------------------------- > > note: > > If you get a message in graphical window :"... reset mbr" > > exit the running graphical liveusb-creator > > and start windows terminal > > enter "liveusb-creator --reset-mbr" > > it will restart graphical liveusb-creator using this extra command. > > > > > I do plan to purchase an optical drive as well, so I could put the image on cd. I could probably pick one up tomorrow or Sunday at Fry's so I would have it when the eeePC arrives Monday. > > If the CD/DVD will work for accessing the files in the LiveUSB Creator process, I could make a mini-version of Tom's Soas Creation Kit with just a few files and hand it out at InfoTech. I would probably just include the blueberry iso file, the boot-helper file, and maybe some instructions in a text file. What else would be good to include on this "SoaS For Dummies" disk? Remember KISS. > > Thanks for helping get this ready for the "Big Time!" > Caryl > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > <a href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> > > > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div>