Walter, youre brilliant. I used a Lexar 2 gig and created a stick. The Dell booted. BTW, my ex-husband bought this Dell new for $100 on some weird special (knowing him it was fatwallet). He bought 5 of them and made a nifty profit.
It booted fine. It doesn't connect wirelessly but LAB (low and behold) it has a wired port so I hooked it in. Yep, connects to the internet. I downloaded Turtle Typing per Walter. OMG - it works! So I got a little bold and put my custom lesson in there thinking all the lessons would be lost when I reboot. I used one of the 3 USB ports and stuck in another thumb drive with the lessons on it (formatted FAT32) It wasn't lost! All lessons were still there when I rebooted the machine. BTW - it takes 45 seconds to boot on that stupid $100 Dell Inspiron 910. Looks pretty good but there are font issues and the screen cuts just a bit off on the bottom but otherwise very usable. Plus it is about 100 times faster. I can't stop. I'm not looking at the neighborhood. I suspect that doesn't work but I can't help myself. Thanks again, -Kathy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Walter Bender Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 9:22 AM To: Kathy Pusztavari Cc: IAEP SugarLabs Subject: Re: [IAEP] How to load onto Ubuntu netbook On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Kathy Pusztavari <[email protected]> wrote: > Nevermind - I see now that the Fedora USB Creator says Browse OR Download. > Duh on my part. > > Boy it takes forever to download sometimes.... This is why I recommend downloading the image separately (and subsequently using the Browse option). > -Kathy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Walter Bender [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:26 AM > To: Kathy Pusztavari > Cc: IAEP SugarLabs > Subject: Re: [IAEP] How to load onto Ubuntu netbook > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Kathy Pusztavari > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I got the beta version to work on my PC (Dell Dimension 9200). Works >> great (and super fast) but I have a couple of newbie questions: >> >> 1. If I want to add an activity (Turtle Typing), is that possible? > > Depending upon which Beta you have, just use activities.sugarlabs.org > to download and install new activities. But Turtle Typing should be > already included, but perhaps not starred in the List View? > >> >> 2. I noticed that when looking at the thumb drive you don't see the >> actual directory structure. Does it set up a virtual directory >> structure upon booting? >> >> 3. Once booted, can I simply copy over the Turtle Typing directory >> structure into the virtual area? I suspect this would need to be >> done each time it is booted but I'm just wondering. I can see >> another thumb drives with the typing turles files on it... >> >> >> Now onto another question. Stop me if I'm not asking in the right place. >> >> I tried to load onto a Dell Inspiron 910 netbook that came loaded >> with Ubuntu. I created the 2 gig thumbdrive SoaS beta on an XP machine. >> When I used the Fedora Live USB Creator, I wasn't sure from the >> instructions what to choose in the pull down titled "Download Fedora". >> I'm not sure that is even required that you choose something there if >> you click on "Browse" and use the SoaS beta .iso. >> >> Questions: >> >> 1. Can I create the thumbdrive on an XP - not boot on the XP but >> directly try to boot it on the Ubuntu Dell netbook? I tried that and >> it will not boot. (yes, I changed the boot sequence to boot on USB). > > The most recent version of the USB Creator lets you access the Sugar > Beta from the pull-down menu on the upper-right of the window. But you > may well want to down load the image and use the Browse functionality > as per earlier versions. (In my experience it is faster and it lets > you make multiple > copies.) Don't forget to allocate some persistent storage. > > Once you have made the SoaS USB, it should work on any computer, > although the Beta is known to be finicky. > >> >> 2. Do I have to create the thumbdrive on the Ubuntu netbook using the >> instructions for Linux. I suck at Linux so I'm trying to avoid that >> as I'm not sure it has all required packages and I'm trying not to >> mess with the machine as it's not mine. > > No. The image you create on XP should work everywhere. If it doesn't, > perhaps try a different brand of USB. Not sure why that matters, but > it seems to. (I have had good luck with SanDisk for some reason.) > >> >> 3. Has anyone else successfully gotten a thumbdrive to boot on this >> particular Dell Inspiron 910 netbook running Ubuntu? >> >> 4. Should I try to create a bootable SD card instead? >> >> Overall I have only two questions that have been answered but hasn't >> gotten through my thick skull. >> >> 1. I realize that using Fedora 11 is part of SoaS-2 but is there an >> actual different SoaS .iso in the making for version 2 or is simply >> using the current beta of SoaS and loading it on Fedora 11 (using the >> Download Fedora on the right side of the Live USB Creator) >> automatically making it a SoaS-2 version. >> > > The base system of SoaS-2 is F11. For SoaS-1, it is F10. The system > used to create the USBs is not relevant, although the F9-based helper > CD didn't work for SoaS-2. The new helper CD is based on F10. > >> 2. What are the various "Download Fedora" options? What is an i686? >> When should the Sugar on a Stick option be used? I think this is a >> case of too many options and a newbie so sorry about that. > > You should just use the SoaS Beta. The rest of the options are not > relevant in this use case. > >> Sorry to be a bother and thanks for any help, > > Not a bother. > >> >> Kathy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
