[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Tests of applications on booted Trisquel 4.1 sugar installed to a 8Gb USB (2nd version 02/18/2011)

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 15:16 -0500, Sean DALY wrote: 
>   
>> Hi Bernie we are working on getting a French variant of Tom's image
>> working for a charitable foundation project
>>
>> I am personally convinced VMs are the way forward for solving our
>> ease-of-installation teacher demo problem, but not everyone is (cf
>> last marketing meeting [1]). Oracle (ex-Sun) VirtualBox has perfect
>> licensing for us  - we can distribute installers for nonprofit
>> educational uses, which means a single Zip file with VirtualBox
>> installer, image, parameter file, and instructions PDF
>>
>>     
Sean;

Here is a first cut at such a installer;

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarVB_InstallDemo.iso

This is a test DVD (1.2GB) which contains:

32bit-VirtualBox Installers  (Directory with Install files for 
VirtualBox 4.0.4)
Instructions.pdf  (Instructions-How to install and import Appliance)
trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-feb18.ovf
trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-feb18-disk1.vmdk
UserManual.pdf (VirtualBox 4.0.4 User Manual-269 pages)

It is uploading now and will be available in about 3 hrs.

Tom Gilliard
satellit

>> This also means we can prepare versions already set up with
>> es/fr/it/de languages/keyboards too, but that implies some
>> organisation of course
>>
>> Priority right now is getting website revamp underway, then Uruguay
>> Garmin-Cervelo race sponsorship, then "product" marketing later when
>> we've had more time for QA and determine next steps for SoaS
>>     
>
> +1 on the above plan!
>
> Let me know if there's anything I can do to help on the infrastructure
> side.
>
>   
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