[IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina

[Jim Simmons]

Caryl,

Not sure what you mean by a straight Fedora 12 CD.  The only Fedora 12
CD I'm familiar with runs F12 as a live CD system and gives you the
option to install it to your hard disk by double-clicking an icon on
the GNOME desktop.  I don't see how that's going to help me boot from
a USB or for that matter boot from the CD but use the USB the way the
SoaS boot CD does.

If you can clear this up I'd appreciate it.

James Simmons

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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