[SoaS] Need Help With SoaS! (Including Mac)

[Raffael Reichelt]

Hello Caryl!

2011/11/20 Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>

>  Hi Folks...
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> I finally have a couple of days with access to both PCs and my Mac, so now
> is the time to try SoaS!  I need to be able to test it on both the Windows
> machines and the Mac.  After about an hour of reading confusing,
> conflicting, and convoluted info online, I am now thoroughly just that...
> confused, conflicted and convoluted!
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> This a a cry for help!  First some questions...  and, please, if at all
> possible I don't want to go into terminal. When I try to show this to
> educators at SCaLE 10 X in January that will definitely turn them off.
>
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> 1) Is there any possibility of using the same SoaS stick on both a PC and
> a Mac with Virtual Box running (on the Mac)? Is there any reason to run
> Virtual Box on a PC to run SoaS?  Would this be a way to get the same usb
> stick to work on both?
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>
>
I just wanted to recall an email I sended long time ago. It is possible to
boot the same stick on Mac and windows:
Subject: Finally: painless way to boot soas mango lassi usb on macbookair
From: Raffael Reichelt <raffael.reichelt at googlemail.com>
To: Development of live Sugar distributions <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>
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Hello everyone!

I finally managed it to painlessly boot up my Macbook Air from a 1GB USB
Stick into Mango Lassi! Here is the way to do it:

Prerequisites:

Bootcamp Partition with WIN7
EasyBCD - download at: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1



Procedure:

Run EasyBCD. You need to add a new entry and then install the Bios Extender.
The Bootmenu is showing up with an additional item wich leads to a new
dialog to choose where to boot from (choose USB). Worked immediately. Maybe
someone will give it a try with other Intelmacs.

Just tried it with a 32-BIT V6 - works fine - of course still no wireless
lan :-(

Regards,
Raffael


> 2) Some folks have reported being able to get SoaS to run on a Mac with
> persistent storage. Exactly how, in simple terms did they do this?  Virtual
> Box I assume? But, maybe I am mistaken.
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> 3) When I set up the Live USB creator parameters, what do you recommend
> for persistent storage?  I am using a 4 GB stick.
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> 4) Is there an easy way to add Activities to the SoaS build? If so, does
> this need to be done before the stick is created or can they be added later?
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> I'm sure this will be enough to get me started, but there will undoubtedly
> be other questions as I go along.
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> Thanks!
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> Caryl
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