[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Recommendations for running Sugar on standard hardware (non-XOs)?

Iain Brown Douglas iain at browndouglas.plus.com
Mon Apr 14 07:04:01 EDT 2014


On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 23:07 +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 20:54 +0000, Sam Parkinson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think we need to make a really simple tutorial and put it on the
> > wiki home page. Just something with the link to the iso and lots of
> > screenshots :)
> > 
> > I might have a go on the weekend.

@Sam Slides 1 is splendid for this job, well done.

I had a first run, which produced this: http://is.gd/0kbeMZ
It is unfinished of course, but this number of slides seemed to crash
3GB of RAM, and the images seem to prevent saving to Journal in SoaS. I
will report when I understand why!

I will re-work it, and probably shorten it. Next time I will deliver
commands straight from the Slide presentation.

Any other feedback welcome!

> > 
> > Or maybe we could try to make and 'install' activity for soas?

A script.py to identify and unmount the USB stick and create the
appropriate command, could be a first step. I wonder if the script could
then be delivered by this sort of presentation?


> 
> Both very good ideas, to which I have been giving thought.
> 
> It would be good to fix a "single" method to document - my vote would be
> for along the lines of [1]. It would be good to have comments on whether
> this "suits all".

:"-) (Suits all) as in, meets a reasonably high proportion of use cases.

Iain


> [1]
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Testing/Reports/Sugar_on_a_Stick_Persistence
> 
> 
> Iain
> 
> 
> > 
> > Sam
> > 
> > On Apr 9, 2014 4:17 AM, "Thomas Gilliard" <satellitgo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         
> >         On 4/8/2014 9:39 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> >         
> >         > Hi David, 
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > thanks for the link.
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > Given that this page was last updated back in 2012 I'm
> >         > wondering whether anyone knows if the instructions are still
> >         > up-to-date and working?
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         
> >         In general this is still valid. Anaconda - the fedora
> >         installer has changed but is still accessed from root terminal
> >         in the listview of f3 ( sugar-desktop and SoaS.) of F20 [1]
> >         and F21 (rawhide) [2]  with "liveinst'.
> >         
> >         Tom Gilliard
> >         satellit
> >         
> >         [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_20
> >         [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_21
> >         > Cheers,
> >         > Christoph
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:19 AM, David Beveridge
> >         > <bevhost at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         >         I would try this method..,
> >         >         
> >         >         http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/Install_with_liveinst
> >         >         
> >         >         On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
> >         >         <christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         >         > Hey everyone,
> >         >         >
> >         >         > a guy I know wants to set up a couple of older
> >         >         laptops with Sugar in a sort
> >         >         > of "learning lab" in Germany and asked me what the
> >         >         best route for doing that
> >         >         > was. Since I haven't dabbled in that area in quite
> >         >         a while I'm not sure what
> >         >         > the best recommendations are these days:
> >         >         >
> >         >         > * using the SoaS version from late December?
> >         >         > * installing Fedora 20 and running Sugar on top of
> >         >         that?
> >         >         > * something entirely different?
> >         >         >
> >         >         > Any comments, suggestions, links, etc. would be
> >         >         much appreciated.
> >         >         >
> >         >         > Thanks,
> >         >         > Christoph
> >         >         >
> >         >         > --
> >         >         > Christoph Derndorfer
> >         >         >
> >         >         > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
> >         >         > editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
> >         >         > co-founder, TechnikBasteln®
> >         >         [www.technikbasteln.net]
> >         >         >
> >         >         > e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
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> >         > -- 
> >         > Christoph Derndorfer 
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
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> >         > co-founder, TechnikBasteln® [www.technikbasteln.net]
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