[IAEP] Mac Woes
Hi... OK, here's the dumb question for today. I am sitting here in the wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest Strawberry Soas for my Mac. Tomorrow evening I will be presenting a talk/hands-on for the Bozeman MT LUG about SoaS and the contributors program. The club president, a prof in the CS dept at MSU in Bozeman, has already created a lot of SoaSs and Live CDs, but I wanted to try it tonight at home so I will know what to expect. I don't have access to a Windows machine here. So I have two possible ideas for how I could do this: 1) Create the SoaS using Windows in my Bootcamp Windows partition. (Will this work?). 2) Use the same procedure we use to create a software update USB for the XO. It will work on either a Mac or Windows. Here is a link to those instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/No-fail_update Steps 2-4 would be the ones needed for this (with variations to meet the actual conditions for SoaS). Would method 2 work? Would method 1 work? If niether will work, I'll just have to wait until tomorrow evening. If either, or both will work, we can revise the instructions for others who may be stranded in the boonies with nothing but their trusty Macs. Caryl___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Mac Woes
On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:36, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... OK, here's the dumb question for today. I am sitting here in the wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest Strawberry Soas for my Mac. Hi. I haven't had a chance to try booting the Strawberry SoaS on my MacBook Pro yet, (us Mac users hate and rarely need to reboot and loose application state), but Strawberry works well for me under VirtualBox if that's a reasonable, quick, compromise solution. Regards, --Gary P.S. happy to describe my basic VirtualBox steps in more detail, but it is close to download .iso; run in VB; tell it to boot from a 'CD', and point to the downloaded ISO file. Good for demo's and fast testing only, as this quickie gives your no state between boots, though that does mean you can mess around trying stuff with impunity. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Mac Woes
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:36, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... OK, here's the dumb question for today. I am sitting here in the wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest Strawberry Soas for my Mac. Hi. I haven't had a chance to try booting the Strawberry SoaS on my MacBook Pro yet, (us Mac users hate and rarely need to reboot and loose application state), but Strawberry works well for me under VirtualBox if that's a reasonable, quick, compromise solution. Regards, --Gary I created a VirtualBox VDI file from strawberry http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-strawberry-vdi.zip Here are the instructions http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox Dave P.S. happy to describe my basic VirtualBox steps in more detail, but it is close to download .iso; run in VB; tell it to boot from a 'CD', and point to the downloaded ISO file. Good for demo's and fast testing only, as this quickie gives your no state between boots, though that does mean you can mess around trying stuff with impunity. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com http://www.solutiongrove.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Mac Woes
Can you please update the Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry page Mac section with a link to your image/instructions? Thanks. -walter On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote: On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:36, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... OK, here's the dumb question for today. I am sitting here in the wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest Strawberry Soas for my Mac. Hi. I haven't had a chance to try booting the Strawberry SoaS on my MacBook Pro yet, (us Mac users hate and rarely need to reboot and loose application state), but Strawberry works well for me under VirtualBox if that's a reasonable, quick, compromise solution. Regards, --Gary I created a VirtualBox VDI file from strawberry http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-strawberry-vdi.zip Here are the instructions http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox Dave P.S. happy to describe my basic VirtualBox steps in more detail, but it is close to download .iso; run in VB; tell it to boot from a 'CD', and point to the downloaded ISO file. Good for demo's and fast testing only, as this quickie gives your no state between boots, though that does mean you can mess around trying stuff with impunity. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com http://www.solutiongrove.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Mac Woes
Thanks. (I see the page has changed quite a bit since last night :) -walter On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Dave Bauerdave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please update the Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry page Mac section with a link to your image/instructions? Thanks. There is already a section on virtual machines on the Strawberry page. I added a link to that in the Mac OS X section. Dave -walter On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:36, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... OK, here's the dumb question for today. I am sitting here in the wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest Strawberry Soas for my Mac. Hi. I haven't had a chance to try booting the Strawberry SoaS on my MacBook Pro yet, (us Mac users hate and rarely need to reboot and loose application state), but Strawberry works well for me under VirtualBox if that's a reasonable, quick, compromise solution. Regards, --Gary I created a VirtualBox VDI file from strawberry http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-strawberry-vdi.zip Here are the instructions http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox Dave P.S. happy to describe my basic VirtualBox steps in more detail, but it is close to download .iso; run in VB; tell it to boot from a 'CD', and point to the downloaded ISO file. Good for demo's and fast testing only, as this quickie gives your no state between boots, though that does mean you can mess around trying stuff with impunity. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com http://www.solutiongrove.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com http://www.solutiongrove.com -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
