[Sugar-devel] SOAS

[Sean DALY]

Forwarding to SoaS list

On Tuesday, July 21, 2015, David Leeming <david at leeming-consulting.com>
wrote:

>  Hello,
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> I have familiarity with Sugar since working with OLPC from 2008, but I
> haven’t been active in these communities for some time. I’m just refreshing
> myself on current status of Sugar with a view to introducing teachers to it
> in a forthcoming workshop in Vanuatu. We’ll be using tablets as well as PCs
> so I have familiarised myself with Sugarizer. I then intended to introduce
> the wider world of Sugar conveniently with SOAS.
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> So I have downloaded both the 32-bit and 64-bit iso files and verified
> their hashes. I also download the latest version of USB Live Installer. I
> formatted a fairly new 16GB USB with FAT32 and installed SOAS on it leaving
> 2000Mb of persistent memory. The USB stick is a “SanDisk Cruzer Facet 16GB”.
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> Immediately I run into problems. When booting (on a fairly recent Toshiba
> i7 laptop) it stops with “vesamenu.c32 not a com32r image”. On pressing Tab
> key I do not see “Live” as an option, but it does start with the option
> linux0. Sugar boots and I can use it for a few minutes, I tried Speak and
> Turtle Art for instance, but within a short time it hangs and needs a hard
> boot.
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> I repeated the whole process with the 32-bit (verified) iso file and same
> problem. I’ll give this problem only a few hours as that is all I have. But
> I would like to know what are the requirements for a reliable repeatable
> experience with SOAS, as it says on the website, to get Sugar into Vanuatu
> schools.
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> *David Leeming*
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> Solomon Islands
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