[SoaS] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out.

[Peter Robinson]

Please don't reply technical to the marketing list. Keep it on the SoaS list.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Matt Wronkiewicz <matt at wronkiewicz.net> wrote:
> Raffael,
>
> That sounds the same as what I saw when I tried to boot the 64-bit v3
> on a MacBook Pro. I recommend you try an alternate method. First, get
> the 32-bit ISO. Then, rename the USB disk "Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS"
> and put the 32-bit SoaS on it. Try booting again. You may also want to
> press the tab key when the bootsplash comes up and select the basic
> video driver option. I got a lot further with this method, but it
> never booted all the way to the Sugar environment. Maybe it will work
> for you. If it doesn't work, you have two other options, both of which
> require the USB stick to be renamed "FEDORA". One, get a USB CD-ROM
> drive and use the boot helper CD to boot the USB stick. Two, download
> VirtualBox and use the boot helper CD ISO to boot your USB stick in
> the virtual environment. Both of these also require the 32-bit SoaS
> file.

Its a known issue with the GPU initialisation on Mac hardware. See my
other response.

Peter

> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:24 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!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Raffael
>>
>> 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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