<div dir="ltr">Many thanks Peter<div><br></div><div>I successfully added GNOME (500 transactions!), however the system is unstable now - neither Sugar nor GNOME can shut down or reboot the system, and the package installer under GNOME fails systematically. I saw on the forums yumex is a possible solution, but wanted your POV first.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(Irrelevant, but worth mentioning: I found GNOME 3 to be a nearly unusable interface... spent nearly an hour fighting with it to find the package installer... icon display truncated every program name, so I had to launch a dozen programs to figure out what was what... surprised there was no browser I could find in the install, but succeeded in adding Firefox with yum at the command line).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I looked for the Sugar/GNOME switcher but didn't find it, did a # yum install olpc-switch-desktop which brought it in. Oddly, GNOME -> Sugar worked (login at blue screen still necessary), but Sugar -> GNOME froze the machine.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The system boots with the Sugar animation, then displays the GNOME 3 login screen with the blue background, the desktop choice is hidden under a wrench icon at top right.</div><div><br></div><div>A hunch, perhaps there is an issue with the account rights? There is still only one account, the admin account native to SoaS.... I don't remember seeing a screen recommending a user account during the Anaconda liveinst. The parameters screen in GNOME would not let me edit or add any accounts.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps repairing this is not time well spent - it's a blank machine, perhaps I'd be better off doing a vanilla F20 install and adding Sugar to it?</div><div><br></div><div>Note: only 512Mb of RAM and 7 Gb of disk space, could be a contributing factors... I have ordered another 1Gb (max for this netbook).</div>
<div><br></div><div>any advice appreciated. thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Sean</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Peter Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Sean DALY <<a href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Peter et. al.,<br>
><br>
> I successfully booted an Asus netbook with SoaS 10 from an optical disk,<br>
> then did a liveinst and installed to hard disk.<br>
><br>
> Sugar works great but I have two questions:<br>
><br>
> 1) Is it possible to install the GNOME desktop too?<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, I run it like that on a number of machines. If you're familiar<br>
enough with a terminal "sudo yum install @gnome-desktop" should be<br>
enough. After a reboot you should have an option to select the desktop<br>
at login. Let me know if you have issues.<br>
<div class=""><br>
> 2) I have been unable to get my 3G USB card to work. I am fairly sure this<br>
> card has worked with other machines under Sugar.<br>
<br>
</div>It should work just fine, I'm not aware of any issues with 3G dongles<br>
but I personally don't have a vast array to test with so it's not to<br>
say there's not an issue. Make sure you have all the latest OS updates<br>
applied and if it still doesn't work if you can include some more<br>
details of make/model/carrier I can help get it sorted.<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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