On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:24:43PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Hello Martin
> Thank you for your reply to question 85331. I didn't know how to get > back to answer you on the launchpad Just edit / update the bug - it emails people / updates them in a way that they can configure to be best for them (perhaps some people might prefer RSS feeds...*shrug*). > but I found your email instead.Please excuse me for using it to > answer your question if I am still having problems with Sugar on a > Stick. Sure - but emailing [email protected] is much better, since more people will see your email and potentially help out. > My system is a Vista Home premium service pack 2 on a Sony PC. BIOS > Changed to boot from a USB flash drive. > 1. I downloaded SOAS-1-Strawberry.Iso and burned the image to a > "DVD". The space required for the files is more than 1GB and won't > fit on a standard CD nor could I put them on a 1 GB USB flash drive > or stick as its called. I copied the files to a 2 GB USB stick. We'd like to get it down below 1GB / to CD size, but it's not there yet. > 2. The DVD works as reported but the stick doesn't. If I start the > PC with the stick I get a message "Remove disks or other > media. Press any key to start." If I have the USB stick in place > with the helper disk, I get a message " Warning: cannot find root > file system etc." Just for curiosity, I started the system with the > stick in place and after the remove message popped up, I started the > helper disk and the USB stick woke up and the system booted up > perfectly. So if you burn it to a DVD it's fine but if you then copy those files to a pre-formatted USB stick it doesn't? That's expected - booting requires more than the files that one can copy with simple commands. > 3. Next I checked if I could log on to my secured network. That > didn't work. I know its not a driver issue on my system since I > downloaded Linux from Fedora to check if I could log on to my > network. It worked fine and even remembered to log on automatically > when I restarted it. It's a neat toy! Hmm. It could be a few issues (either SoaS driver selection or Sugar UI or...). Perhaps someone can point to a good next step to take here. > 4. Next I logged on to an unsecured node successfully and downloaded > an activity to see if it would save it. Saving does not work. It > neither saved the log on name to Sugar nor the activity I > downloaded. The Journal shows that the Sugar Stick has 767 MB free > but I don't believe the system set the persistent storage parameter. I assume you're booting from the USB stick but with the DVD to "help" the boot process as you mentioned in point #2 above, right? That sort of thing makes all the difference. Perhaps someone can identify what you could do / they would change in the instructions to help with this. > 5. I also tried to setup Sugar using Fedora Live USB Creator several > times but each time I tried to boot the new Stick, a message > "Warning:canot find root file system"etc. popped up. The fourth time > I ran the USB Creator, it worked and I set the persistent storage to > roughly 750 and finally had a working Sugar Stick that boots up. It > works great except for logging on to a secure network. That still > doesn't work. So the exact same (except the different persistent storage size) process failed to create a bootable stick three times and then succeeded the fourth? Thanks for sharing - I think that's quite rubbish but am not familiar enough with these types of problems to suggest much of anything, I'm afraid. > 6. I copied the files on this properly working stick to another > stick to give it to one of my grand kids.The new stick no longer has > the activities I downloaded and has the same problem as item 2 > above. It does not boot up, will not save anything, and will not > connect to a secure network. Is there a way to copy my working stick > to another stick and have it mirror what I had before? We'd like to get better with this, but basically no (since "just copying" has the problem you mentioned here and in #2). You should create another stick with the LiveUSB creator and tweak it (again) :(. I guess the hopelessly chipper would suggest that you could use that process as an introduce-Sugar opportunity for your grand kid(s), but I'm not one of those. If there is a glaring omission from the build we should of course add it, but if it's a customisation you can imagine many people doing it'd be useful to mention that and perhaps it can be made easier in the future. > Sorry to bother you with these issues Feedback is great - thanks for taking the time to write it up. > Any help in resolving these issues would be greatly appreciated. I hope those more au fait with these issues can be more helpful than I. > Regards, Rudy Rubin Martin
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