[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] Beta Image and Boot Helper - please TEST!
Caroline Meeks
solutiongrove at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 08:45:10 EDT 2009
This is my current CD Label. So as you can see its a pretty low bar. :)
I can lightscribe and I can probably also make it out to the store to buy
ink jet labels.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think we might have some news you could be interested in:
>
> The SoaS Beta image has been composed and uploaded, so you can grab it
> now already, even if it's scheduled for release tomorrow. The link is
> here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-beta.iso
>
> Secondly, we've a boot helper now based on F11 ready! So if your BIOS
> doesn't support booting from an USB key, you can just download this
> additional iso, burn it to a CD and boot from it while having your USB
> key plugged in: http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/soas-boot.iso
>
> Note that if you're going to use the boot helper, your USB key (or other
> device) needs to be named FEDORA. This is really a requirement! Both the
> liveusb-creator and the livecd-iso-to-disk script support this now. The
> latter one changes this automatically when being run with the --format
> argument (this removes all your data on the key, though). You can grab a
> new version here: http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
>
> Please test this combination, as it's an important part to get SoaS
> working on older hardware! Finally, if somebody could create a CD label
> for the boot helper disk, this would be really great!
>
> Thanks and happy testing!
> --Sebastian
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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
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