[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Important: Please test the new Snapshot!

[Simon Schampijer]

On 06/20/2009 04:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 20.06.2009, at 03:24, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce eventually the availability of a new SoaS
>> snapshot, which is one of the last snapshots on our way to the v1
>> "Strawberry" release. I think it should be really mentioned that this
>> wouldn't have been possible without Simon, who did great work on
>> fixing
>> sample content and activity installation issues. And this brings me to
>> the changes this snapshot introduces.
>>
>> * You'll get sample content (#840) - Gary worked this out.
>> - Please report if you encounter a "journal full" message or not!
>>
>> * The shiny new boot screen has now been introduced (#709).
>
> Didn't see anything that looked Sugarized.
>
> I tried on a Mac mini using the helper CD.
>
> It first shows a short bluish splash while counting down seconds that
> looks nothing like Sugar. Then it boots the kernel and unpacks the
> initrd, using white text on a black background. Then a blue fedora
> screen appears with a progress bar on its bottom. This does not look
> Sugarish either. After that bar reached the end, back to the black
> screen with an underscore character (might be a cursor) in the upper
> left corner. Then the machine freezes so I could not test further.
>
>> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200906191638.iso
>
> - Bert -

You will not see the new screen when you use the boot helper CD. We want 
to brand it in the future though - #741.

Regards,
    Simon