[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB ( boots directly from USB )

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I am following the progress of this with great interest, and as soon as I
> finish the work I promised to do on the Help Activity/Users Manual refresh,
> I will have a chance to try it.  I do have a few questions that will help me
> get started.
>
> 1) Which Mac OS X are you running?

It should work with all Intel based Macs

> 2) Has this been tested on a MacBook?

See above :-)

> 3) Can I create the persistent usb on my MacBook using the instructions I
> found in item 4 on this page?

You can create persistent images with overlays (you always have been
able to). There are some issues with them and I've been working with
upstream to have a properly engineered means of doing this. There is
MAJOR work going on within the Fedora installed (anaconda/liveinst) to
allow this to happen. With luck we should see the first fruits of this
start to appear in the SoaSv7 timeframe. This has been a long time
coming, I'm been pushing for this for nearly 2 years!

> http://www.webupd8.org/2009/04/4-ways-to-create-bootable-live-usb.html
>
> If this works, it is really good news!  I would love to be able to show it
> at SCaLE 10X in Los Angeles on Jan 20-22.  Should I put in a proposal for a
> presentation or is it not ready for the "big time" yet?

Sure, it should work fine. SoaSv6 is looking to be a very good release
fixing a lot of outstanding issues we've had around for quite some
time.

Peter

> Better still.... would someone from Sugar Labs like to do a presentation at
> SCaLE?
>
> I'm looking forward to hearing answers!
>
> Caryl
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:32:57 -0700
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> Subject: [SoaS] MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB ( boots
> directly from USB )
>
> We now have a persistent EFI boot USB for Macs...
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB
>
> works with f16 RC4 x86-64 Soas.iso
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.RC4/Live/x86_64/Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso
>
> Use: livecd-iso-to-disk  see first link for details.
>
> Tom Gilliard/satellit_
>
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