[SoaS] download/installation problems

[Thomas C Gilliard]

dbclinton wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm afraid I'm having repeated problems getting my Sugar experience off
> the ground and I need some help. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I've
> downloaded SoaS at least three different times (the most recent as a
> 32bit torrent from http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads)
> and each package has failed. My latest attempt failed its sha1sum test
> (this was also the case with at least one of the first two download's
> hash results). 
> In any case, assuming at least one of the first two packages I
> downloaded was intact, I created USB boot disks from each and managed to
> get the boot process going, only to face this fatal message:
>
> "no root device found boot has failed
> sleeping forever"
>
>   
It sounds like your USB stick needs to be reset:

Method 1-) Download:

http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh

in Properties/Permissions  make it execute as a program

Root terminal :

  ./livecd-iso-to-disk  --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 1200 
/home/(user)/Desktop/soas-3-mirabelle.iso /dev/sd(x)

hint: use mount command to get device name: ie: 
/dev/sdb;/dev/sdc;/dev/sdd  ....etc be sure it is correct.

Method 2_)Use this command in terminal:

" liveusb-creator --reset-mbr "


References:

https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-3-mirabelle.iso

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Graphic_installers

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Graphical_Method_-_Windows_or_Fedora
> while the sleep part certainly was inviting, it didn't further my Sugar
> aspirations. Any ideas?
> By the way, I did briefly try the Sugar-emulator (0.88) from the Ubuntu
> repositories, but I didn't find it to be particularly stable and was
> hoping for something better with SoaS.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
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