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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > >> > Subject: [IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina > >> > To: IAEP SugarLabs <[email protected]>, Developers List > >> > <[email protected]> > >> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > >> > 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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > > > -- > > Caroline Meeks > > Solution Grove > > [email protected] > > > > 617-500-3488 - Office > > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [email protected] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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