[IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina

[Caroline Meeks]

Jim,

With the older machines that failed to boot, can you try a straight F12 CD
and see if that works?

Thanks,
Caroline

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> Caryl,
>
> If you do choose to use a Boot Helper CD make sure you test booting up
> from it before you go.  When I tried Blueberry myself I found that I
> could boot off the USB itself just fine on a newer PC that supports
> booting directly from USB.  However, I tried using two other older
> machines that needed a boot helper CD and neither of them was able to
> boot with the CD.  The pretty boot art with the circle of dots seems
> to work OK until it is time to draw the final two dots and then it
> hangs.  Note that I have used these machines with Strawberry and
> earlier SoaS and their corresponding boot CDs, so the evidence seems
> to point to the helper CD itself.
>
> I did report this on BugTraq:
>
> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1626
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:47:25 -0800
> > From: Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: [IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina
> > To: IAEP SugarLabs <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, Developers List
> >        <devel at lists.laptop.org>
> > Message-ID: <SNT118-W15F3515BC439D32A18D0C5CC7B0 at phx.gbl>
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> >
> >
> > H All i...
> >
> >
> > Did this ever get implemented? If so where do I find it? Are there any
> special instructions I need to make and use the live CD? Can a usb stick be
> used for file storage?
> >
> >
> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Sugar_LiveCD
> >
> >
> > I would like to be able to take several copies with me to give to a tech
> person at an elementary school in Buenos Aires when I go there in
> mid-January.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Caryl
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