[SoaS] Live media installers -was: sugar on a stick

[Thomas C Gilliard]

I just downloaded unetbootin-windows-433.exe
From:  https://launchpad.net/unetbootin

Installed it in Windows XP SP2 running in VMworkstation 6.5.3
used it to install to a 4GB firefly USB 2 times as a test:

After they were written I booted the USB in an acer aspire one netbook:
The resulting USB boots with a unique boot screen (attached 2 jpg's)

1-) blueberry -v2
halted with error:
drm: drm_mode_rmfb *error* tried to remove a fb that we did not own
this was a snapshot of Soas release 2 , sugar 0.86.3

I rebooted the USB and added selinux=o to boot line
 >worked as it was supposed to...

   
2-) soas-i386-20100307
 >worked as it was supposed to...

My conclusion is if you want a non-persistent USB this is a fine solution.

Plus you can download the  f12-netinstall.iso from it and put it on  a 
usb (at least it  is listed on the dropdown)
I did not try that.....

Tom Gilliard
satellit

Frederick Grose wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Sascha Silbe <
> sascha-ml-ui-sugar-soas at silbe.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:19:17AM -0400, Frederick Grose wrote:
>>
>>  Please note this recent advisory concerning Unetbootin:
>>     
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB&diff=166544&oldid=166026
>>>
>>>       
>>  From that page:
>>
>>     
>>> Unetbootin does not work.
>>> The Fedora Project has received numerous bug reports relating to using
>>> Fedora Live USB keys made with
>>> unetbootin. Please use the official livecd-tools or liveusb-creator
>>> referenced above to make Fedora Live USB
>>> keys This warning will be removed when we can confirm these bugs are
>>> fixed.
>>>
>>>       
>> Do you know details, by any chance?
>> There are 112 open bugs [1] which doesn't look too good, though several of
>> them are of the "Please support distro X" kind. It's more the amount of
>> "Undecided" bugs that makes it look bad...
>> It might nevertheless be better to help fix unetbootin rather than build
>> our own tool.
>>
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/unetbootin/+bugs
>>     
>
>
> Paul has updated the advisory,
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB&diff=next&oldid=166544,
> to,
>
> {{admon/warning | Unetbootin may not work | The Fedora Project has received
>   
>> numerous reports relating to using Fedora Live USB keys made with
>> unetbootin.  You may want to use the official livecd-tools or
>> liveusb-creator referenced above to make Fedora Live USB keys.}}
>>     
>
>
> I have no other information, sorry.        --Fred
>
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