[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] Beta Image and Boot Helper - please TEST!

[Caroline Meeks]

Great pictures Mike!

The sticks I sent you are not the most recent Beta, the one up now has
working sound.

Thanks,
Caroline

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just got a chance to burn this SoaS beta onto a USB drive (the Sugar
> branded one). Here are photos (ones with black background) of it running on
> an Intel Classmate 3:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157613785006745/
>
> So far: No sound from Speak. Playing OGG file produces some popping sounds.
> Zoom in doesn't work on Image Viewer. No wifi APs visible in Neighborhood.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> 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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