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<p style="font: 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Verdana">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!</font></p>
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<p style="font: 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Verdana">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.</font></p>
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<p style="font: 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Verdana">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?</font></p>
<p style="font: 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Verdana"><br></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div> <div>I just wanted to recall an email I sended long time ago. It is possible to boot the same stick on Mac and windows:</div>
<div> </div><div>Subject: Finally: painless way to boot soas mango lassi usb on macbookair<br>From: Raffael Reichelt <<a href="mailto:raffael.reichelt@googlemail.com">raffael.reichelt@googlemail.com</a>><br>To: Development of live Sugar distributions <<a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf307f37001448f304a051d684<br><br>--20cf307f37001448f304a051d684<br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8<br><br>Hello everyone!<br><br>I finally managed it to painlessly boot up my Macbook Air from a 1GB USB<br>
Stick into Mango Lassi! Here is the way to do it:<br><br>Prerequisites:<br><br>Bootcamp Partition with WIN7<br>EasyBCD - download at: <a href="http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1">http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1</a><br><br><br>
<br>Procedure:<br><br>Run EasyBCD. You need to add a new entry and then install the Bios Extender.<br>The Bootmenu is showing up with an additional item wich leads to a new<br>dialog to choose where to boot from (choose USB). Worked immediately. Maybe<br>
someone will give it a try with other Intelmacs.<br><br>Just tried it with a 32-BIT V6 - works fine - of course still no wireless lan :-(</div><div> </div><div>Regards,</div><div>Raffael</div><div> </div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="gmail_quote">
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<p style="font: 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Verdana">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.</font></p>
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<p style="font: 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Verdana">3) When I set up the Live USB creator parameters, what do you recommend for persistent storage? I am using a 4 GB stick.</font></p>
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<p style="font: 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Verdana">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?</font></p>
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<p style="font: 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Verdana">I'm sure this will be enough to get me started, but there will undoubtedly be other questions as I go along.</font></p>
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<p style="font: 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Verdana">Thanks!</font></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<p style="font: 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Verdana">Caryl</font></p></font></span></div>
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