[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS

[David Leeming]

Iain,

I have installed SOAS using Linuxlive www.linuxliveusb.com which will also install Virtualbox, that it runs from the emulator almost perfectly so far (the only issue I saw was it did not detect the camera) No errors booting (as long as you use the correct 32/64 bit version for your machine) and so far I am Speaking and Turtle-ing with no problems, very responsive, in Windows! Launching in Windows apparently does not support persistence but it is a super easy intro to the full power of Linux! 

Booting from the USB on my main machine, I found on one larger i7 laptop it will hang after a few minutes, but it seems stable on another less powerful notebook. I will try other USB sticks. But as long as we know there may be some hardware issues, we can live with it. It is great.  

Many thanks for the tip as it was spot on. Use LinuxLiveUSB to install it and it will run nicely in Virtualbox

 

David Leeming
Solomon Islands Rural Link 
P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands
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www.rurallink.com.sb


-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Brown Douglas [mailto:iain at browndouglas.plus.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2015 7:52 p.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: 'Sugar-dev Devel'
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS

Hi David,

>From what you say, you already did a search for your error message.

Does this Fedora forum answer cover your issue?
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=301945

I have been working with the script livecd-iso-to-disk and it works
fine.

I am working on SoaS Loader, here is a link to the work in progress.

http://soas-loader.readthedocs.org/

Good luck, and thanks for putting time in trying to demonstrate SoaS :)

Iain




On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 10:51 +1100, David Leeming wrote:
> Hello,
> 
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> I have familiarity with Sugar since working with OLPC from 2008, but I
> haven’t been active in these communities for some time. I’m just
> refreshing myself on current status of Sugar with a view to
> introducing teachers to it in a forthcoming workshop in Vanuatu. We’ll
> be using tablets as well as PCs so I have familiarised myself with
> Sugarizer. I then intended to introduce the wider world of Sugar
> conveniently with SOAS.
> 
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> So I have downloaded both the 32-bit and 64-bit iso files and verified
> their hashes. I also download the latest version of USB Live
> Installer. I formatted a fairly new 16GB USB with FAT32 and installed
> SOAS on it leaving 2000Mb of persistent memory. The USB stick is a
> “SanDisk Cruzer Facet 16GB”.
> 
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> 
> Immediately I run into problems. When booting (on a fairly recent
> Toshiba i7 laptop) it stops with “vesamenu.c32 not a com32r image”. On
> pressing Tab key I do not see “Live” as an option, but it does start
> with the option linux0. Sugar boots and I can use it for a few
> minutes, I tried Speak and Turtle Art for instance, but within a short
> time it hangs and needs a hard boot. 
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> I repeated the whole process with the 32-bit (verified) iso file and
> same problem. I’ll give this problem only a few hours as that is all I
> have. But I would like to know what are the requirements for a
> reliable repeatable experience with SOAS, as it says on the website,
> to get Sugar into Vanuatu schools.
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> David Leeming
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> Solomon Islands 
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