[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS

[David Leeming]

Hi Peter,

Iain referred me to a Fedora community where LinuxliveUSB installer was recommended and it works just fine. It also installs a Linux emulator for Windows Virtualbox and I found I could run SOAS beautifully in that way. That is very convenient for my purposes (a quick lead in to Sugar). I also found few problems booting USB sticks and SD cards installed using LinuxLiveUSB, on one machine it seems to hang but others it is fine. So it seems the installer was my issue. 

Regarding collaboration, if we have a few PC computers on the same WLAN running SOAS, can we expect them to see each other and collaborate in neighbourhood view, without a server (ie. in the same fashion as XOs on an ad-hoc network)? I seem to recall doing that with early versions of SOAS. If not, is there a simple/light way to enable collaboration/presence service on a local server sufficient to allow a few local SOAS machines to collaborate?. I am familiar with XS developments (up to 0.7) but in the schools in Vanuatu we'll be using gateway servers we have developed ourselves based on Debian (Jessie 8).  

Best,

David Leeming
Solomon Islands 

-----Original Message-----
From: sugar-devel-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Peter Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, 22 July 2015 10:58 a.m.
To: Development of live Sugar distributions
Cc: Sugar-dev Devel; Iain Brown Douglas
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SOAS

Hi David,

I'm the SoaS maintainer.

> I want to demonstrate SOAS to teachers in Vanuatu. I would like to be more useful, but actually don't have the luxury of time to research these arcane technical issues in which I am not an expert. I just want to know, is there a version of SOAS that is properly tested and known to work? I have used SOAS many times before (years ago) without any problems. Which version is stable and will boot without errors and not hang on use?

The lastest stable version is available here:
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/

> Could be hardware? I will try with another flashdrive. Is 2GB of persistent storage too little/too much?

2Gb should be fine.

Ask here on the SoaS list if you've got any other queries or issues.

Peter

> David Leeming
> Solomon Islands
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sugar-devel-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Iain Brown Douglas
> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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”.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Solomon Islands
>>
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