[SoaS] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out.

[Raffael Reichelt]

2010/11/3 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>

> Please when detailing technical issues strip off non relevant lists so
> we don't spam them.
>
> 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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> >>>
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Your Welcome! This is the result:
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Regards,
Raffael
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