[SoaS] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out.

[Peter Robinson]

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On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Raffael Reichelt
<raffael.reichelt at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Great! I just tried the 64bit version on my old MacBookAir and for the first
> time with SOAS it tries to boot. Thr bootsplash pops upand it is offrering
> thr bootmenu ... unfortunatly then nothing else happens. Is there a chance
> to get it to work completly? I would love it!

That's a problem with the graphics mapping on the Apple devices. We
need to add the details to the kernel to support it. If you can run
the command that's provided in the following bug comment
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528232#c20 and the either
add a comment to the bug with the details or provide the details here
and we can organise to get the problem fixed.

Peter


> 2010/11/3 Thomas C Gilliard <satellit at bendbroadband.com>
>>
>> Great News;
>>
>> Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS CD Boots fine on an Apple MacBook Air with an
>> external hp-DVD/CD usb drive.
>>
>> Hold "C"  and tap power button keep holding the "C" key down until the
>> blue fedora boot screen appears
>> Select Boot (Basic Video)-second line
>> boots to bar display Fedora 14; (Name_____); Choose password for new
>> keyring; hit cancel 6 times.
>> F3 Ring appears
>>
>> Use the usb to cat 5 Air dongle ( applesmc.78) as Network Manager does not
>> recognize the Mac Air's wireless hardware.
>> f1 neighborhood will be full of xxxxxxxxxx at jabber.sugarlabs.org names
>>
>> To fix this go to drop down / My settings /About me. change colors and
>> restart. On restart the names will be correct.
>> ONLY IF you enter the key chain password you entered 1 time when you
>> started sugar.
>>
>> These are known bugs
>>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_Bugs#Current_Bugs
>>
>> ALSO
>>
>> There is a new Boot CD for Macs and computers that cannot boot from USB
>>
>> Boot helper CD for Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS:
>> <http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-4-boot-test.iso>
>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Matt Wronkiewicz <matt at wronkiewicz.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > If anyone else is interested, I put together a boot helper for
>>>> > Mirabelle. Burned to a CD, it enabled booting a USB stick on my
>>>> > MacBook Pro. The stick was partitioned with the plain old MBR format
>>>> > and labeled "FEDORA". I also got both VMware Fusion and VirtualBox to
>>>> > boot the USB stick using this boot helper ISO. The soas-2-boot ISO
>>>> > sort of works with Mirabelle sticks, but they have different kernel
>>>> > versions so modules don't load, thus no networking. That is fixed in
>>>> > this build.
>>>> >
>>>> > <http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-3-boot-test.iso>
>>>> >
>>>> > Matt
>>>> >
>>>>
>>
>> Please Test these result on other MAC's and report here in wiki:
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick_release_process#Macintosh_Testing
>>
>> Congratulations to all
>>
>> Enjoy;
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>> satellit
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> This is the non announcement announcement of the release of Sugar on a
>>> Stick 4 Mango Lassi is out.
>>>
>>> You can download both the 32 and 64 bit version from
>>> http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
>>>
>>> There's an outline of some common bugs in Fedora 14 and hence Fedora
>>> 14 outlined here
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs
>>>
>>> Some of the notable enhancements include:
>>> - Sugar 0.90
>>> - Support for more wireless adapters including the rtl2xxx series of
>>> adapters that are common in eee PCs
>>> - Improved Apple Mac support (still needs SoaS verification as
>>> apparently its a major problem but I could only find Fedora people to
>>> test it for me)
>>> - Quite a lot of things that I can't remember
>>>
>>> I would like to thank Sebastian, Mel, Simon, Thomas and everyone else
>>> who has contributed to this release.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Peter
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