Hi,
I'm trying to understand this.
Is it possible to use the booting method Bill found, where we boot one
kernal in Virtual Box, then that Linux mounts the USB and then it boots the
Sugar kernal on the stick?
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote:
Hi Dave,
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to understand this.
Is it possible to use the booting method Bill found, where we boot one
kernal in Virtual Box, then that Linux mounts the USB and then it boots the
Sugar kernal on the stick?
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote:
Hi Dave,
snip
** unless you put the whole damn vdi on the stick and forgo the idea of
booting the stick independently as a normal OS, though there could be room
to investigate booting of a small partition with a
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote:
Since we can't seem to boot the MacBooks directly, but we could use Virtual
Box, can anyone think of way to use Virtual Box that would allow students to
use the info on their sticks so they can at another point in
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Sure, you could just link the ~/default/datastore directory on the VM
to the matching location on the stick. I'm not sure how the pretty way
to do this would be (likely at this moment in time would be just
tweaking the
Hi Bill,
On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Bill Bogstad wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin
g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Sure, you could just link the ~/default/datastore directory on the VM
to the matching location on the stick. I'm not sure how the pretty
way
to do this
Last I checked virtualbox could not boot from USB on a Mac. This may have
changed in a more recent version.
Dave
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Hi Bill,
On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Bill Bogstad wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Yes, I routinely use the Shared Folders feature for VirtualBox on the Mac
:-) Every thing Sugar flavour I work on resides there for easy access
between different VMs. VirtualBox treats this as a device (after installing
Hi Dave,
On 24 Sep 2009, at 01:55, Dave Bauer wrote:
Last I checked virtualbox could not boot from USB on a Mac. This may
have changed in a more recent version.
Yep correct, that is still the case**. But, we were not talking about
booting USB. Just mounting it and using the data-store