[SoaS] "Read Only" SoaS Almost Passes the "Teacher Test"... but not quite.

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Caryl;

Only the last, latest. version remains on the site.

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/

You must have had it removed in the middle of the download in 
preparation for the next build of the soas nightly-compose. The last was 
built  about roughly 10 hrs ago.  (It is now 5:15 PM PST.) Try to time 
your download so this does not happen.

(http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/logs/  lists 
build times but I do not know what timezone is listed)

Tom Gilliard
satellit

Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> My first attempt at downloading did not complete. Now the link isn't working.  Has it been moved?
>
> Caryl
>
>   
>> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:31:00 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [SoaS] "Read Only" SoaS Almost Passes the "Teacher Test"... but 	not quite.
>> From: pbrobinson at gmail.com
>> To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
>> CC: support-gang at lists.laptop.org; soas at lists.sugarlabs.org; support-gang at laptop.org
>>
>> Hi Caryl,
>>
>> Do you think you could try the 64 bit version of SOAS on your Mac and
>> see if it works? There is an issue booting the 32 bit version off
>> newer Macs.
>>
>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/soas-x86_64-20100416.18.iso
>>
>> Regards,
>> Peter
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi George and All,
>>>
>>> OK, so I tried changing the name of the SoaS usb stick to "FEDORA" in the
>>> finder on 2 different Macs, running 10.4 and 10.5.  It wasn't an option on
>>> either... but I found out why. I just don't know how to fix it.
>>>
>>> I did the get-info process (highlight the item on the screen, then
>>> "command-i".  At the very bottom I expanded "Sharing & Permissions"....
>>>
>>> "You can only read"
>>>
>>> So.... that explains why I can't change the name and why the Name and Color
>>> Combination choices don't persist between boots (recall... I was able to
>>> boot it with the extra step of holding down the "c" key while booting with
>>> the boot helper disk and then "Tab" and editing the text that appears on the
>>> screen as suggested by George below).
>>>
>>> So...  How do we create an SoaS stick that isn't "read only"????
>>>
>>> Caryl
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:17:23 -0400
>>> From: georgejhunt at gmail.com
>>> To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org
>>> Subject: Re: [support-gang] SoaS Almost Passes the "Teacher Test"... but not
>>> quite.
>>>
>>> on my OSX10.4, if you open finder, <ctl>click on the usb name in the left
>>> column, I am given the option to rename the USB stick.
>>>
>>> George
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi George and All,
>>>
>>> Thanks to George's patience and persistence and all of the hints you sent,
>>> I finally got the image-writer-mac program to work and make a SoaS usb
>>> stick. We used the method where we dragged the files over from a finder
>>> window to the terminal window.
>>>
>>>  I feel sure it is good, but I don't have a handy PC to try it on and there
>>> is a funny problem trying to boot it on the MacBook with the help of the
>>> Boot Helper CD. I got that same fateful sounding  "sleeping forever" message
>>> that someone else got earlier in the week.
>>>
>>> The MacBook, requires a boot helper disk that looks for a usb stick named
>>> FEDORA.  I suspect they wrote it that way so it can also be used with
>>> Strawberry and with other future versions of SoaS. However, this stick is
>>> named  "soas-2-blueberry", not FEDORA.
>>>
>>> Well  I tried to rename the usb stick "FEDORA" when it was finished so I
>>> could use it on the MacBook, but, try as I may, I cannot change the name.  I
>>> even tried it on Ed's computer too (a G4 Powerbook) with no luck.  I can
>>> change the name of any other file or other usb stick, but not this one.  It
>>> is apparently "soas-2-blueberry", forever.
>>>
>>> I even tried another tack.  I changed the name of the "soas-2-blueberry.iso"
>>> file to "FEDORA.iso" before going to terminal to run the image-writer-mac
>>> program again and make another stick.  It still wrote the name as
>>> "soas-2-blueberry". So now, I have made 2 SoaS usb drives I can probably use
>>> on PCs, but not on Macs.
>>>
>>> Finally, I tried the method one of you put up a few days ago where you boot
>>> holding down the C key, then the Tab, then change the instructions in the
>>> edit mode. While this did work, it is definitely not "Teacher-friendly."
>>>
>>> If someone could figure out a way to change the name of the usb stick from
>>> "soas-2-blueberry" to FEDORA somewhere along the way when making the SoaS
>>> stick, we would have something that definitely would meet the "teacher
>>> test."  I repeat, all usual methods failed.  Any ideas???
>>>
>>> I still have 8 days before InfoTech.
>>>
>>> Caryl
>>>
>>> BTW, The choice of "Name" and color combination did not persist from boot to
>>> boot.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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