<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I just built both a Soas-v3 and Soas-v4 Live USB which boots successfully on a MacBook Air with a Boot Helper Disk in a USB CD/DVD external drive: I detail the steps here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Building_a_bootable_USB_using_a_MacBook_Air">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Building_a_bootable_USB_using_a_MacBook_Air</a> ( go the linked page above for the download links) Here are the steps I used: Building a bootable USB using a MacBook Air 1 Boot MacBook Air Download Soas-v4 Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS Copy it to a USB for transfer later (see below) 2 Format Target USB (2GB) in OSX Disk utility Insert Target USB start Disk Utility highlight the target USB in left column of OSX Disk Utility Click on erase; select fat16; Name FEDORA; hit return VERY IMPORTANT: Helper CD will not work if USB is not named FEDORA (in CAPS) 3 Burn USB Start Oracle Virtualbox for OSX VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmg TO download F14: Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop Start the F14 Desktop you have installed to Virtualbox Insert USB that contains: Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso Copy to running f14-Desktop in Virtualbox 4 Start liveusb-creator (To install liveusb-creator; In Terminal:"yum install liveusb-creator) <Browse>/Desktop/ Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso <Target Device> /dev/sdb1 (FEDORA) <Persistent Storage> choose 900 MB (1800 for 4GB USB) <Create Live USB> 5 Shutdown Fedora 14 in Virtualbox; Close Virtualbox Program; Shutdown MacBook Air. 6 Insert Soas-4-boot-test CD in USB DVD/CD; Plug in Live USB you just built soas-4-boot-test 7 Boot from helper soas-4-boot-test CD Hold down "C" key and do not release until Fedora Blue "soas-boot" screen appears Select "Boot with basic video driver" Hit return * Congratulations Your Live USB should Boot and run Sugar on a Stick v4 Mango Lassi * The same procedure works for Soas-v3-Mirabelle using the Soas-3-boot test CD Note you can eject the USB CD/DVD drive and unplug the USB from the Mac Air. It will not be needed until next time you boot the Live USB For networking you can plug in the MacBook Air specific USB Network Dongle. (Wireless is not supported) Enjoy; Tom Gilliard satellit Caryl Bigenho wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:SNT110-W413601DFA8B7566158B326CC3A0@phx.gbl" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:15:53 +0000 From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:martin@martindengler.com">martin@martindengler.com</a> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:danceswithcars@gmail.com">danceswithcars@gmail.com</a> CC: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:abhunkin@uncg.edu">abhunkin@uncg.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> Subject: Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:53:27PM -0500, DancesWithCars wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">This has probably been mentioned elsewhere, but is there a Sugar/ soas on Mac list? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Some days I think soas@ _is_ soas-mac@ ;)Those must be the days when I am pleading for help doing SoaS things on my MacBook.BTW a casual survey of about 20 teachers showed about 60% using PCs and 40% using Macs with their students.These teachers were from all over SoCal. All the LAUSD teachers seem to have MacBooks issued to them bythe district.Caryl Martin _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </pre> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>