[SoaS] [IAEP] "SoaS For Dummies?"

[Gerald Ardito]

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

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Thomas C Gilliard <
satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:

> 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)
> http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.img
> http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.crc
>
> 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: satellit at bendbroadband.com
> > To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
> > CC: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org;
> support-gang at laptop.org
> > 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 <
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Blueberry_Instructions> 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)
> >
> >     https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
> >
> > * 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
> > SoaS at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/attachments/20100418/b78d1d0e/attachment-0001.htm