[Sugar-devel] soas strawberry sha1sum?

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Mon Jul 6 03:54:42 EDT 2009


On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 20:27, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sameer, in my experience sticks are not nearly as reliable as CDs in
>> terms of loading a bootable image, apparently due to internal firmware
>> and chip differences
>>
>> I believe Caroline was getting some failures even with identical make
>> & model sticks in the Nexcopy mass loader.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>
> Bummer!
>
> There are a few people here in Jamaica, who are interested in getting
> Sugar onto computers in some of the richer/private schools. I was
> hoping to do a SoaS demo. I'll try to CD route for now. More later...

Not sure that's what you meant, by just in case would like to note
that the reliability issues of some USB sticks doesn't mean that it's
not a viable solutions in some scenarios. You may need a bit of luck
with the usb stick model and the host computer hardware and BIOS,
though.

Regards,

Tomeu

> cheers,
> Sameer
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
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>
>
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com> wrote:
>>> Sameer Verma wrote:
>>>> I'm getting 41b08c93a65cc1e38286b9f8980f51528a36761d is this correct?
>>>> I tried a usb stick, but keep getting bad or damaged partition at boot
>>>> time.
>>>>
>>>> sameer
>>>
>>> Yup, it is: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/SHA1SUM
>>>
>>> Bad or damaged partition errors? Maybe your USB key is broken?
>>>
>>> You could try burning the .iso image to a CD to see if it works there...
>>>
>>> --Sebastian
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