Re: [SoaS] New SoaS v2 Snapshot Ready

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Douglas McClendon fixed selinux problems and bugs in zyx-liveinstaller: v0.1.12 is in soas02.iso. If you want to test immediately with soas02.iso, start terminal, become root, and type rpm -e zyx-liveinstaller rpm -Uvh \

Re: [SoaS] Hybrid live images

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
F11 (rawhide)selinux=1 default setting has to be addressed to make this feasible. the selenix policy for browse has to be added so it will work or it has to be changed to selenix=0 Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Bernie Innocenti wrote: I was reading the Fedora 12 beta release notes [1], and

Re: [SoaS] soas20.iso and zyx-liveinstaller - soas03 update

2009-10-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
: Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Sebastian; New soas02.iso boots well on hp laptop (graphical (plymouth)) and on EeePC1000HE ( non graphical horizontal bar (Fedora 10.9) ) It works from burned CD and VMworkstation (IDE DISKS ONLY) from .iso I've got a new 0.1.15 version of zyx-liveinstaller even

[SoaS] dd creation of persistent USB using a clicfs .iso using fdisk to make partition 2

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Here is the terminal output of the creation of a Persistent 4 GB SUGAR USB using a clicfs .iso which then has a second partition added with fdisk. It works. Tom Gilliard == # dd if=openSUSE-Sugar-live-unstable.i686-0.3.0-Build22.2.iso

Re: [SoaS] updating the draft decision panel report

2009-11-04 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 04.11.2009, at 03:17, Tabitha Roder wrote: 2009/11/4 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com OK How about Sugar to Go which could include all types of media? Caryl I like Sugar to Go Portable Sugar ? Might lead to more confusion though. That name very much

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems /createsecondpartition.sh

2010-01-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 07:48 -0500, Xander Pirdy wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, this tutorial seems to be a bit ambiguous on the point, but would you loose persistence if you simply dd the iso? If not where is the storage for this located, or is it just a

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-29 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bernie; I downloaded your Soas-2-Blueberry.img and tested it: http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img.xz (Note Ubuntu 9.04 Archive Manager will not decompress .xz files I then used F12 (Constantine) Edu Spin Archive Manager (usb HD install) to do it.) In terminal:

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems / Please write wiki with how you made soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bernie; Could you edit the wiki and detail how you built the soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img ? I think it would be nice to have documented so others could do it. Tom Gilliard satellit Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 13:45 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: The XO-1, with 1GB

[SoaS] add dd command use to backup a USB stick to .img file in floss manual section on backing up

2010-02-03 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
David; Here is a Backup Method that works for USB/SD sticks: (can you add this to Floss Manual as a backup method) do this outside of sugar: -- How to backup an installed live USB via a .img file dd if=/dev/sdg of=xx.img NOTE IN ROOT (#)

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS with Sugar 0.87.2 coming to a system near you

2010-02-04 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Art Hunkins wrote: This version lacks csound-python. (A simple install adds it back in.) I'd appreciate csound-python being included - both now and forever. Art Hunkins - Original Message - From: Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com To: SoaS soas@lists.sugarlabs.org; Sugar Devel

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS with Sugar 0.87.2 coming to a system near you / An alternate install method using liveusb-creator from a 4GB Bluebery USB

2010-02-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
to produce a liveusb (Ideal for netbooks) This worked on a EeePC900. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux#Use_liveusb-creator_to_make_new_Live_USB_as_Installer_USB_.28Unsupported_and_Experimental.29 Tom Gilliard satellit Thomas C Gilliard wrote: As zyx-liveinstaller and livinst both

[SoaS] soas-i386-08 nightly composes .iso no major changes from -07 preliminary testing

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Sebastian: I used VMworkstation 6.5.2 to make a 4 GB USB from the current Nightly Composes 08 .iso INSTALLATION zyx will not work cannot make copy of live fs liveinst works fine if set custom partitioning : /boot 200 ext4 ; / balance of USB the advantage is that it runs firstboot so if you do

Re: [SoaS] Using SoaS Blueberry to emulate OLPC F11 builds

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Martin; why not use zyx-liveinstaller,which generates a real file system, to make the First USB Stick? Link: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/ZyX-LiveInstaller This way there is no danger of overlay corruption. You can thus proceed with you customization with yum. 4GB is a minimum

Re: [SoaS] Using SoaS Blueberry to emulate OLPC F11 builds

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I just documented in the wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Live_USB#livecd-iso-to-disk_to_write_live_USB it writes the downloaded .iso directly to a 4GB usb. Done from F12 installed HD Great for notebooks (with no CD) Boots fine on EeePC900 with wireless. Has persistence Tom

[SoaS] Test day- soas-testing-day-13-02-10.iso -install testing from irc #sugar today.

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Sebastian; I did some install testing of soas-testing-day-13-02-10.iso right after ericos announced it. Sorry I cannot participate with testing today. Tom Gilliard satellit Clipped from #sugar today = satellit erikos: test day soas: livinst brings up gdm cant get to

[SoaS] .iso to USB install transcript for soas-testing-day-13-02-10.iso

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
IN TERMINAL of F12 HD install: (4gb Lexar Firefly USB) Makes USB with persistence. [x...@localhost ~]$ su -c livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 800 /home/xxx/Desktop/soas-testing-day-13-02-10.iso /dev/sdb Password: Verifying image...

Re: [SoaS] recommended brands...

2010-02-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I use Lexar Firefly 4GB, Toshiba 4/8/16 GB sticks and have had no problems. Sandisk SDHC 4/8 GB SD Cards work well also. Beware of USB sticks with U3 software (Sandisk cruzer micro 4GB) as you need to use the U3 software to remove the U3 Partition befor using them for sugar. A LED to see

Re: [SoaS] Installing SoaS to USB MSD using Linux

2010-02-23 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
look at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Live_USB It has several ways to install on a USB smi...@zenzebra.mv.com wrote: Hello... I'm brand new to SoaS, and hoping to help a local school with it. But, before I do that, I need to figure out how to install SoaS so I can become familiar

[SoaS] sugarizing liveusb-creator (permission)

2010-02-23 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
. In fact, I'm glad these files are going to a good home, since I no longer have the ability to debug or maintain them. from: catmo...@catmoran.com On 2/23/2010 5:12 PM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Hello; I am a volunteer to sugalabs.org I have quoted your script (http

Re: [SoaS] Installing SoaS to USB MSD using Linux

2010-02-23 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Working VM's of Blueberry (put the HD files on a USB stick if you want) read txt files first both cleared of ./sugar VMplayer http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Blueberry-vmx.tar.gz http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Blueberry-vmx.txt virtual box:

[SoaS] soas-x86_64-20100224.18 Testing Preliminary results

2010-02-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
20100224.18 Testing Preliminary results *1-)soas-i386-20100224.18.iso* sugar 0.87.2 F13(rawhide) a-) Burned CD Boots in External USB CD on EeePC900 wirelessly, NM works correctly in F1 b-) Made 4GB USB with su -c livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr

Re: [SoaS] livecd Digest, Vol 59, Issue 8-[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] add edit-livecd script for, editing livecd based images

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
--- Joey Boggs wrote: On 03/12/2010 05:14 PM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Joey; I would like to try it. I am a nubie, so I need a detailed instruction on how to apply it. It looks like it is just what I need to know how to implement. Tom Gilliard satellit Joey Boggs wrote: On 03/10

[SoaS] IRC.activity in soas-3-20100319 a working fix as it will not start as shipped

2010-03-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
the IRC.activity that is preloaded in soas-3-20100319 will not start. Did a DL from aslo but it still failed. I went to /usr/share/sugar/activities and did a rm -R IRC.activity and removed all files and the directory. Then I repeated the DL from aslo version 5.xo and started it fine. *(I

Re: [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick Changing Engineering Direction (Test results of a 2GB Live USB of soas-i386-20100319.17.iso)

2010-03-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Some of you may have overheard activity in #sugar-meeting today discussing the upcoming beta freeze for SoaS, and the engineering capacity we have to work on things for the upcoming release (in May, since as a Fedora Spin we are tied to the Fedora release schedule).

Re: [SoaS] FW: Crazy SoaS Idea Another way to distribute sugar USB's

2010-03-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl; I am uploading a 2GB USB img file - ETA about 2 hrs http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-i386-20100324-tests.tar.gz if you expand this file you will find soas-i386-20100324-liveusb-creator.img Burn this to a 2Gb or larger USB/SD dd if=soas-i386-20100324-liveusb-creator.img

Re: [SoaS] FW: Crazy SoaS Idea Possible DVD Kit-

2010-03-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I can try to put together the required files on a DVD and then make a .iso of it to upload to Tgillard. So there would be 2 files... One with the SoaS files for the creation of the USB stick and the other to play as a live CD. Am I crazy or what??? I think you would have to burn the sugar.iso

[SoaS] The new nightly composes of f13 Mirabelle cannot be installed to Hard disk

2010-03-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I am worried about our next soas release: ==The new nightly composes of f13 Mirabelle cannot be installed to Hard disk: I have tried installing,using a Burned CD and a booted USB stick, to: a-) internal Hard Disks b-) usb attached Hard Disk c-) 2,4,and 8 GB USB Sticks formatted in many ways.

[SoaS] Sugar-Creation-Kit DVD (preliminary version) is available to download for testing and comments

2010-03-28 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
, as it easy to make copies locally) Tom Gilliard satellit Hey, why don't we repost this to soas@ ? Other people may be interested as well. On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 17:01 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Caryl; It is up there: Just finished uploading (about 7 hrs) I am doing a test DL here

Re: [SoaS] Call for Testing: Duplicating SoaS via CMD Test results....will not work on ext4 fs?

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Sebastian: TEST: soas-i386-2010322.iso in f12 liveusb-creator (graphical) 637 persistence file firefly 2GB USB target successful creation Booted USB on EeePC900 (EeePc has no CD Drive: /dev/sr0) added deducto-4.xo and develop-39.xo by drag drop from 2nd ASLO usb to journal -They worked fine-

Re: [SoaS] Sugar-Creation-Kit DVD (preliminary version) is available to download for testing and comments (I have just burned the , iso on a G4 Mac sucessfully ans suggestions)

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
:01 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Caryl; It is up there: Just finished uploading (about 7 hrs) I am doing a test DL here ETA 1 hr(HS Cable Modem) http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/CONTENTS

Re: [SoaS] SoaS 3 Activity list add essential program: liveusb-creator

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I would strongly suggest adding liveusb-creator (graphical) to the installed programs on soas. It works well and can be considered a replacement for zyx-liveinstaller. If it requires terminal command to start as zyx-liveinstaller did, it should be less visible to beginning students. And you can

Re: [SoaS] Call for Testing: Duplicating SoaS via CMD (Please Help with modified_livecd-iso-to-disk script)

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Frederick: I have been trying to make this work... I created with liveusb-creator a 4GB USB with persistence 2400 of iso soas328; using a usb 500GB HD install of f13 Beta1 Gnome + sugar rebooted with the new USB in sugar terminal: su - yum install wget gedit wget http://(path to soas

[SoaS] f13-installer-2GB-USB.img / soas-i386-20100329.19 with liveusb-creator installed

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I am uploading a 2GB USB img file and accompanying txt file for this f13-installer-2GB-USB http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/f13-installer-2GB-USB.img.tar.gz There is also a screenshot of my EeePC900 running it with 3 USB sticks 1-Boot USB 2-1GB USB with soas-i386-20100329.19.iso 3-2GB

Re: [SoaS] EEEPC900

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
-28 at 17:01 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Caryl; It is up there: Just finished uploading (about 7 hrs) I am doing a test DL here ETA 1 hr(HS Cable Modem) http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso http://people.sugarlabs.org

Re: [SoaS] Sugar-Creation-Kit DVD (preliminary version) is available to download for testing and comments (I have just burned the , iso on a G4 Mac sucessfully ans suggestions)

2010-03-31 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Tom, I have started making my way through the huge collection of resources you have compiled for the DVD. It will take a while as I keep getting distracted by interesting things and wanting to read more than needed for a simple test. So far I have only gone

Re: [SoaS] Sugar-Creation-Kit DVD (preliminary version) is available to download for testing and comments (I have just burned the , iso on a G4 Mac sucessfully ans suggestions)

2010-03-31 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
drag and drop from stick in sugar frame to the journal and it is installed. (This file is also on the DVD) Tom Gilliard satellit James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 05:57:54AM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: (It is HUGE upload to sunjammer so I do not plan to update it very often

Re: [SoaS] Sugar 0.88.0 stable release in Fedora 13 and testing of daily images.

2010-04-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bug filed:#1897 The wrong IRC (sugar-xoirc) appears to be in the KS file for the soas spin. irc-5.xo should be there instead: ===Testing of soas-i386-20100401.18.iso==- Tested With EeePc900 (wirelessly) Created with booted 2 partition 4GB Firefly USB: 2 partition Builder USB

Re: [SoaS] Sugar-Creation-Kit DVD (preliminary version): soas-1-strawberry.iso problem

2010-04-04 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl; look at this link: https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/soas/+question/95622 ( It has a possible solution to using the Mac boot cd with a soas USB) I do not have an intel MAC-so I am unable to help here. It does sound like you have sucessfully burned the CD's if they show in your mac as a

[SoaS] [Fwd: Re: [Question #95622]: No root device found; Boot has failed, sleeping forever] MacBook Pro with the Blueberry imaged USB and the Boot Helper CD in place.

2010-04-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Forwarded to list (Do We need to fix this for MacBook boot) Tom Gilliard satellit Question #95622 on Sugar on a Stick changed: https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/soas/+question/95622 lisfolks posted a new comment: So, I didn't have to make any changes to the image on the USB. This is what I

[SoaS] TESTING Report soas-i386-20100404.17.iso 2GB Firefly usb Liveusb-creator

2010-04-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
TESTING Report soas-i386-20100404.17.iso 2GB Firefly usb Liveusb-creator EeePC900 Fedora release 13 (Goddard) 0.87.7 ApplicationsVersionComments = (update) *(SELECTED for F3 circle) Browse114* Etoys113 chat

Re: [SoaS] [SoaS via CMD] Duplicating SoaS with customization -was: Call for Testing: Duplicating SoaS via CMD (Testing Need Help on commands)

2010-04-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Frederick Grose wrote: As requested in http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/TODO, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448030, and http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/74, the following 3 scripts provide a testable means to duplicate a running SoaS image that may have been

Re: [SoaS] [SoaS via CMD] Duplicating SoaS with customization -was: Call for Testing: Duplicating SoaS via CMD (It works very well)

2010-04-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: ... Test Usage: 1. Copy the script files above to the root '/' folder at the base of the filesystem on a SoaS USB stick known to run Sugar. I tried this: ... copied 3 scripts to /root of running 405 USB in root terminal

[SoaS] Custom-Spin-20100405.17 (CustomSpin405-2GB.img.tar.gz) is available for Download in about 3 hrs (10am PST)

2010-04-07 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I am Uploading this 2 GB USB .img file (910.1 MB actual size) This USB.img has the ability to reproduce itself to a second USB when running as a USB: FILE: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/CustomSpin405-2GB.img.tar.gz ReadME:

Re: [SoaS] SoaS Good News/Bad News (Congratulations and Comments)

2010-04-07 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl: Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All... Here, at last, is an SoaS progress report along with some more questions. As you may recall, I am hoping to have a good working version of SoaS to distribute to interested educators at the LAUSD Tech Fair at the LA Convention Center on April 24.

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Lucian and All, Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked. Now that leads to another question. If I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the image-writer-mac file in Terminal from the larger download Tom G. posted (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) how would I do

Re: [SoaS] [support-gang] [IAEP] SoaS Good News/Bad News (3 ovf files you can Import into Virtualbox that works on almost all OS's( including intel macs)

2010-04-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bert Freudenberg wrote: Thanks Sean. People sometimes forget that all this is written by volunteers in their spare time. E.g., I made the image-writer-mac.py script. Is it what a regular Mac user would want to use? Of course not. It does not have a graphical interface, and cannot be used

[SoaS] soas-i386-20100410.19.iso Report -(will not start)

2010-04-11 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I tested http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/soas-i386-20100410.19.iso on Vmworkstation 6.5.3 with EeePC1000HE running Ubuntu 9.04 It gets to the graphic wheel on booting and then restarts endlessly. The previous Nightly composes have started correctly on this setup I

Re: [SoaS] soas-i386-20100410.19.iso Report -(will not start)

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
./livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 800 /home/xxx/Desktop/soas-i386-20100411.16.iso /dev/sdg 2 GB USB EeePC900 Same behavior with a 2 GB USBand soas-i386-20100411.16.iso Tom Gilliard Peter Robinson wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
soas-i386-20100411.16.iso update: changed boot line to (removed all boot commands including quiet with backspace) added selinux=0 vesa did full relabel on USB. still same behavior. ( graphic wheel then small arrow cursor then drop back to udev start) Seems to happen as abrt is called by

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10 Testing soas-i386-20100411.16.iso

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Testing- startx command gives blue screen with small arrow cursor added init 3 to boot line login: liveuser su - yum install sugar* 32 pkgs install (looks like all activities plus sugar-emulator 0.88.0-1) 2 upgrade (Xephir x11-server common-1.8.0-1,fc13.i686) Dependency

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
/__init__.py, line 64, in module _init() File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py,, line 52, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display Tom Gilliard satellit Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel

Re: [SoaS] You scream, I scream, we all scream for Mirabelle ice cream in a SugarClone

2010-04-13 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I tested this but ran into problems: I selected /dev/sde1 as USB to write to but SugarClone script insisted on /dev/sdd for source USB - but my source live USB is /dev/sdc1. (EeePC900 with solid state drives which are seen) Need way to specify source and target USB in SugarClone command. (Or

Re: [SoaS] You scream, I scream, we all scream for Mirabelle ice cream in a SugarClone

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Other neat uses for the modified_livecd-iso-to-disk script: 1-) Make second live USB from iso downloaded with wget to root of your USB/SD: (I used Bernie's Blueberry-Direct ext3 non-live real file system, expanded with gparted to fit a 8GB SD)

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter; jabber.sugarlabs.org is back up now (daveb on #sugar reset database) so I could finally test soas builds. tested a usb with soas-i386-20100405 (one of last that worked) It does not connect to it. I just stopped blueberry-direct which was connected to it so I know it is available...

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Same behavior booted from a CD of soas-i386-20100405 log file has no entries for presence service Peter; jabber.sugarlabs.org is back up now (daveb on #sugar reset database) so I could finally test soas builds. tested a usb with soas-i386-20100405 (one of last that worked) It does not

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
is blueberry-direct? On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter; jabber.sugarlabs.org is back up now (daveb on #sugar reset database) so I could finally test soas builds. tested a usb with soas-i386-20100405 (one of last that worked) It does

Re: [SoaS] You scream, I scream, we all scream for Mirabelle ice cream in a SugarClone

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
That is where we'll load the SugarClone /dev/sdd [r...@localhost live]# No further action occurs..? Tom Gilliard satellit Frederick Grose wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel

Re: [SoaS] [SugarClone] -was Re: You scream, I scream, ...

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
still not working. If I insert a USB plus the SD, I get 5 item list If i select a number eg: 1 you chose: usb..Lexar..USB choice #1, /dev/sde [r...@localhost live]# No further action occurs..? Frederick Grose wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel

Re: [SoaS] [SugarClone] -was Re: You scream, I scream, ...

2010-04-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
soas-i386-20100414.22.iso written to 2GB USB Same behavior: continous restart from wheel on graphics startup after bars f13 This seems to fix it: IRC log(edited): * soas-9ad7 (~...@2002:42dc:6d04:0:21f:c6ff:fe8f:d3a) has joined #sugar soas-9ad7 soas-i386-20100414 on 2GB USB * soas-9ad7 is

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
FYI : A working 2 GB USB .img file of soas-i386-20100414 is available for Download These scripts were drag-dropped into the USB opened on a PC: modified_livecd-iso-to-disk SugarClone Link for scripts: http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/

Re: [SoaS] [SugarClone] -was Re: You scream, I scream, ...

2010-04-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Frederick Grose wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: ... dragged scripts into USB opened on PC I think you mean booted here instead of opened, if you booted the USB device. (Opening would refer to a file or file system

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
:51 Installed: hal-docs-0.5.14-3.fc13.i686 - Tom Gilliard satellit Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Those are the applications on 414 and their version numbers read from f3

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Thomas, On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: This was from log application on working soas 414 I do not know which of these are needed to fix problem. This is what I did: Could you reply in line

Re: [SoaS] [support-gang] Read Only SoaS Almost Passes the Teacher Test... but not quite.

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bert Freudenberg wrote: The iso file is a CD image. ISO is short for ISO 9660, a.k.a. CDFS (Compact Disc File System). It is a file system designed for CDs, which is read-only. When you just copy the iso file to a USB stick, the stick will have the same file system, and will be read-only.

Re: [SoaS] [support-gang] Read Only SoaS Almost Passes the Teacher Test... but not quite.

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 16.04.2010, at 21:45, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Bert Freudenberg wrote: The iso file is a CD image. ISO is short for ISO 9660, a.k.a. CDFS (Compact Disc File System). It is a file system designed for CDs, which is read-only. When you just copy the iso file

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Thanks Peter !; Sugar starts on 415. ./livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 1200 /home/xxx/Desktop/soas-i386-20100415.20.iso /dev/sd(*) Makes a working 2GB USB (sugar 0.88.0 fedora13) Bugs: 1-)no working Presence service (D/L from ALSO with Browse) Analyze application:

Re: [SoaS] SoaS For Dummies?

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Bert, Tom, and All, In case you are all wondering why I want to make this so easy, remember that while I am sort of a closet techie and could learn to do all these fancy work-arounds, I also have many years experience working with and training other educators who are

Re: [SoaS] SoaS For Dummies?

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl; look at my 3 stick setup with EeePC900 for using liveusb-creator installed onto the running blueberry USB http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/f13-Installer-USB2.JPG To Boot EeePC900 hit power on button hit esc repeatedly while starting select USB to boot from from menu ==To install==

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-17 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Here are test results for 4GB USB soas-i386-20100416 (on #sugar this morning): * satellit-f283 (~...@2002:42dc:6d04:0:21f:c6ff:fe8f:d3a) has joined #sugar * satellit-f283 is now known as satellit_416 satellit_416 testing 4GB USB soas-i386-20100416 * satellit_416 has quit (Remote host closed the

Re: [SoaS] SoaS For Dummies?

2010-04-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl; I just bought a G1G1 XO-1 on e-bay for testing. * I requested and downloaded a developer key * disabled security (very important!) * installed f11-xo-1-py (fedora 11 gnome and sugar) http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.img

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS For Dummies?

2010-04-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
tml in the address bar. Then there are further instructions to disable security on that wiki page You need a key for every XO so this might be time consuming. Dave Many thanks. Gerald On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote:

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Here are test results for script created 2GB USB soas-i386-20100417 still no presence service working presenceservice.log empty write still writes to header soas 417 write log error: /usr/share/sugar/activities/Write.activity/AbiWordActivity.py:245: GtkWarning: gdk_window_set_cursor: assertion

Re: [SoaS] Read Only SoaS Almost Passes the Teacher Test... but not quite.

2010-04-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl; Only the last, latest. version remains on the site. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/ You must have had it removed in the middle of the download in preparation for the next build of the soas nightly-compose. The last was built about roughly 10 hrs ago. (It

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Here are test results for script created 2GB USB soas-i386-20100418 still no presence service working presenceservice.log empty write still writes to header soas 417 write log error: /usr/share/sugar/activities/Write.activity/AbiWordActivity.py:245: GtkWarning: gdk_window_set_cursor: assertion

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 19/04/10

2010-04-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Frederick Grose wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, ... Also please note we are now in count down to release so over the next ten days I'll be finalising the set of the Activities to be included with the final release.

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 19/04/10

2010-04-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Hi; Just a thought; Is there no way to sugarize the SugarClone command and required files into a .xo or rpm to install in sugar from ASLO? This would be a much nicer solution Tom Gilliard satellit Frederick Grose wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Peter Robinson

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 19/04/10

2010-04-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Hi; Just a thought; Is there no way to sugarize the SugarClone command and required files into a .xo or rpm to install in sugar from ASLO? This would

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 19/04/10

2010-04-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
See newer scripts here: http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/ ___ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas

Re: [SoaS] You scream, I scream, we all scream for Mirabelle ice cream in a SugarClone

2010-04-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
These instructions work every time: the script SugarClone is having problems seeing my target USB Tom Gilliard satellit from wiki http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Live_USB#Duplicating_SoaS_with_customization. Duplicating SoaS with customization

Re: [SoaS] [SugarClone]

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone#Other_neat_uses_for_the_modified_livecd-iso-to-disk_script Tom Gilliard Frederick Grose wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: ... I added these files to opened cd on desktop of my Dell 520n desktop by drag drop

Re: [SoaS] SoaS Creation Saga

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Correction: 7* Use ESC key on starting up the EeePC for Hard Disk and USB listing menu not TAB Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... Still no luck making a live SoaS on the eeePC. I guess need to learn a lot more about Windows before I can do it. I have no idea which drive is which

[SoaS] SugarCreationKit07 updated version available fo Download

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Updated SugarCreationKit07 DVD.iso available for Download: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarCreatonKit07-Contents http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarCreatonKit07.iso Tom Gilliard satellit ___ SoaS mailing list

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 19/04/10

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Frederick Grose wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, ... Also please note we are now in count down to release so over the next ten days I'll be finalising the set of the Activities to be included with the final release.

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
, on the newer ones with 11n its ath9k. The Acer Aspire One 532H is currently the device I'm recommending for people who want to use Fedora Mini (either Sugar or Moblin). Cheers, Peter On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter; Does the Acer Aspire

Re: [SoaS] [SugarClone] -was Re: You scream, I scream, ...

2010-04-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Fred; Tested Your new SugarClone script. It works fine. * Used on 4GB USB Firefly*: ./livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 2000 /home/robert/Desktop/soas-i386-20100421.18.iso /dev/sd(*) * Removed and then reinserted USB in Ubuntu 9.04 * Copy/Paste 2 scripts to opened

Re: [SoaS] zyx-liveinstaller errors in soas-i386-20100423.23.iso

2010-04-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Douglas; I am posting the latest zyx-liveinstaller.log for soas-i386-20100423.23.iso We REALLY need your program for the latest versions of f13 Soas liveinst and Anaconda are both failing, so there is NO way to install to Hard Disk The only way left for me to test the Nightly Composes of

Re: [SoaS] sugar on a stick

2010-04-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
There are a lot of options listed on wiki here (also see other distributions at bottom of page): http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Live_USB (resent as did not send to lists) Caroline Meeks wrote: Here is another one: http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/downloads.html

Re: [SoaS] Reformat USB stick, How?

2010-04-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl; Your EeePC900 has windows= hard to use To do a lot of what I describe in the wiki : http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Live_USB#FEDORA_based_Live_USB.27s You need to run linux buy a cheap Seagate free agent or similar usb external HD (250 GB or smaller) (available in office max

Re: [SoaS] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter; I know it is not an activity, but it affects all of them: Will the presence service get fixed in time for the release? All I am able to see is xmpp local on any of the f13 Composes of Soas log application has no entries No Jabber server access for collaboration. (Or are we

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: Thanks, thought so. Can you see if there's any thing in the Log activity for the presence service? Or email me directly the log so I can cross check some other issues we;re seeing. Peter On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
liveuser]# (saved to clipboard and drag dropped to 2nd USB in frame from journal) Tom Gilliard satellit Sebastian Dziallas wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Yes it has jabber.sugarlabs.org in Control Panel / Network It looks very

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 26.04.2010, at 21:16, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, So as it stands the final Activity list that we're pushing for SOAS-3 will be as below unless someone gives me reasonable doubt

Re: [SoaS] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
==Preliminary soas-i386-20100426 testing== 2GB USB: ./livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 1200 /home//Desktop/soas-i386-20100426.16.iso /dev/sdg Boot in ACER Aspire One no Plymouth startup screen: barf12 hangs at end of progress bar ===- f13 Reboot edit boot

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: ==Preliminary soas-i386-20100426 testing== 2GB USB: ./livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 1200 /home//Desktop/soas-i386-20100426.16.iso /dev/sdg Boot

Re: [SoaS] [SugarClone] -was Re: You scream, I scream, ...

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Fred; Used new SugarClone loaded by itself into USB: (Drag drop into opened USB on Ubuntu 9.04 desktop) Then Booted Acer Aspire One with it.) sugar-terminal: -- [liveu...@localhost ~]$ /mnt/live/SugarClone clone

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: ==Preliminary soas-i386-20100426 testing== 2GB USB: ./livecd-iso

[SoaS] FYI anaconda fix for soas..test Digest, Vol 74, Issue 86

2010-04-28 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
To: t...@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: 20100427180449.4d963...@ohm.scrye.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:26:15 -0700 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Please Help We need to fix this... Soas Spin: http

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-28 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
==Preliminary Testing of soas-i386-20100427.18.iso== http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/soas-i386-20100427.18.iso ./livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 1200 /home/xxx/Desktop/soas-i386-20100427.18.iso /dev/sdg to 2GB USB *Plymouth graphic circle

[SoaS] test

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
test ___ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas

Re: [SoaS] test Digest, Vol 74, Issue 91

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
: 20100428123552.61fb1...@ohm.scrye.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Please don't send copies of list messages to me, I'm already on the list. ;) On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:24:09 -0700 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: I tried to yum install this and pyparted-3.3-1.fc13 is already

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