[Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[Art Hunkins]

Your byte count is the same as mine, and I've no problems.

I use the Live USB Creator as well on WinXP.

I second Tomeu's suggestion about checksum..

Art Hunkins
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Leeming 
  To: Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org 
  Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 12:21 AM
  Subject: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems


  Hello,

   

  I am trying out SOAS for the first time, for a workshop related to an OLPC deployment.

   

  Unfortunately I can't get it to run on either of two laptops on which I tested. I followed the instructions using LiveUSB Creator, with a previously downloaded copy of the SOAS-2-Bueberry iso. The flash drive was 2GB capacity, previously reformatted and I used 505MB of persistent storage.

   

  I am using Windows Vista and tested it on that and also a machine running W7. Both required the boot helper but started up OK with the start up screen with the circle of dots forming clockwise around the X. But before the circle of dots completes, it hangs and on pressing the ESC key I see the following:

   

  /sbin/dmsquash-live-root:166: grep not found

  dracut warning: machine in enforcing mode and cannot execute load_policy

  dracut warning: to disable selinux, add selinux=0 to the kernel command line

  dracut warning: not continuing

   

  I reproduced this behaviour with another flash drive, so I doubt that is the problem. As stated, same behaviour with two very different laptop computers (both ASUS, one an F3SC laptop, one a 1005HA netbook). 

   

  Could it be an incomplete download? Using Windows Explorer (right click/properties) on the downloaded iso file it shows as 589 MB (617,611,264 bytes). Can anyone verify that is OK? However, it succeeds with the LiveUSB Creator and does start up initially.

   

  That is not so easy for me to test as in the Solomons it can be an overnight job to download 600MB, and there are often outages.

   

   

  David Leeming

  Solomon Islands 

   

   



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