[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi David,

the most practical way of making sure that your download isn't
corrupted is to verify the checksum:

http://techcityinc.com/2009/02/06/calculate-md5-and-sha1-on-windows/

The SHA-1 checksum of the file should be the one in this file:

http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/SHA1SUM

I think that LiveUSB Creator checks it for you.

I'm cc'ing this email to the soas mailing list in case they can be of more help.

Regards,

Tomeu

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:21, David Leeming
<david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
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> I am trying out SOAS for the first time, for a workshop related to an OLPC
> deployment.
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> Unfortunately I can’t get it to run on either of two laptops on which I
> tested. I followed the instructions using LiveUSB Creator, with a previously
> downloaded copy of the SOAS-2-Bueberry iso. The flash drive was 2GB
> capacity, previously reformatted and I used 505MB of persistent storage.
>
>
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> I am using Windows Vista and tested it on that and also a machine running
> W7. Both required the boot helper but started up OK with the start up screen
> with the circle of dots forming clockwise around the X. But before the
> circle of dots completes, it hangs and on pressing the ESC key I see the
> following:
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> /sbin/dmsquash-live-root:166: grep not found
>
> dracut warning: machine in enforcing mode and cannot execute load_policy
>
> dracut warning: to disable selinux, add selinux=0 to the kernel command line
>
> dracut warning: not continuing
>
>
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> I reproduced this behaviour with another flash drive, so I doubt that is the
> problem. As stated, same behaviour with two very different laptop computers
> (both ASUS, one an F3SC laptop, one a 1005HA netbook).
>
>
>
> Could it be an incomplete download? Using Windows Explorer (right
> click/properties) on the downloaded iso file it shows as 589 MB (617,611,264
> bytes). Can anyone verify that is OK? However, it succeeds with the LiveUSB
> Creator and does start up initially.
>
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> That is not so easy for me to test as in the Solomons it can be an overnight
> job to download 600MB, and there are often outages.
>
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>
> David Leeming
>
> Solomon Islands
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