[IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina

[Jim Simmons]

Caroline,

Sorry to confuse you with Caryl.  Don't know why I did that.

I'll try making up a Fedora 12 CD and booting from it.  As I
understand it, your idea is simply to see if I can boot the Fedora
Live CD, not that this would be an alternative way to boot SoaS
Blueberry.

I was able to boot SoaS Strawberry using a boot helper CD before, so I
was surprised that the boot helper CD for Blueberry didn't work.

James Simmons


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> I think you meant this question for me, Caroline not Caryl,
> You should be able to boot to Fedora from a CD made from the ISO here,
> installation is optional I think.
> http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
> You mentioned that you had two older machines that were not booting
> Blueberry from the boothelper. I am curious whether they will boot a normal
> Fedora 12 CD.
> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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>
>> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > 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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