[Sugar-devel] SOAS

[David Leeming]

Hi Ian

I want to demonstrate SOAS to teachers in Vanuatu. I would like to be more useful, but actually don't have the luxury of time to research these arcane technical issues in which I am not an expert. I just want to know, is there a version of SOAS that is properly tested and known to work? I have used SOAS many times before (years ago) without any problems. Which version is stable and will boot without errors and not hang on use? 

Could be hardware? I will try with another flashdrive. Is 2GB of persistent storage too little/too much?

David Leeming
Solomon Islands 


-----Original Message-----
From: sugar-devel-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Iain Brown Douglas
Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2015 7:52 p.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: 'Sugar-dev Devel'
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS

Hi David,

>From what you say, you already did a search for your error message.

Does this Fedora forum answer cover your issue?
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=301945

I have been working with the script livecd-iso-to-disk and it works
fine.

I am working on SoaS Loader, here is a link to the work in progress.

http://soas-loader.readthedocs.org/

Good luck, and thanks for putting time in trying to demonstrate SoaS :)

Iain




On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 10:51 +1100, David Leeming 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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