On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave and All, > > Well, I tried to get the SoaS to work on my MacBook from a USB with no > luck. Here is what I did... > > I had an old version of Virtual Box (2.???) so I downloaded the new one and > uninstalled the old one before installing the new one. > > I downloaded the appliance and attempted to follow the instructions. The > Boothelper does show up on Virtual Box... powered off. The I also seem to > have Sugar and Sugar/SoaS... possibly left over from the old version I > uninstalled. > > I tried to download SoaS to a usb stick. When I look at the contents it > shows up as "599-sugar-on-a-stick-v084" and the information says it is a > Unix executable file. >
Ok. Here is the first problem! There is no way to create a SoaS USB stick on a Mac. Well I suppose you could install Windows or Fedora and dual boot and then run the liveusb-creator, but that seems ever more complicated. > I did a restart holding down the option key... it gave me a choice of Mac or > Windows, nothing else. I also tried the C key. That just went straight to > Mac. > Ok. With Virtualbox you don't need to reboot at all. SoaS will run inside Virtualbox as a guest to your OS X operating system. > I think I may have the files a downloaded correctly but just don't know how > to make it work. I'll work on some better instructions. Thanks for the feedback. Dave > > Help??? > > Caryl > > > > >> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:05:26 -0400 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [SoaS] Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X >> >> I have created an experimental USB boothelper for Virtualbox on OS X. >> This will let you boot from SoaS on USB into a virtual machine so you >> don't have to try to reboot and use a cdrom. >> This includes an applescript application called "Soas USB" which will >> manage starting the virtual machine and connecting the USB to the >> virtual machine. >> >> It has been tested on a Macbook and an iMac running OS X 10.5.8 so >> far. It seems to work reliably on my Macbook but the iMac had some >> trouble getting the USB to be recognized. I am looking for folks for >> might want to test and give feedback. >> >> You'll need SoaS installed on a USB stick. >> >> To install the appliance first download and install Virtualbox >> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. Note this only works with >> the Personal and Evaluation License edition since the Open Source >> edition does not have USB support. >> Next download >> http://www.solutiongrove.com/SoaS%20Virtualbox%20Boothelper.zip >> and unzip it. >> >> Next open up Virtualbox and select File->Import Appliance. Navigate to >> where you unzipped the appliance and select the Soas Boothelper.ovf >> file. >> >> Insert a SoaS USB. Make sure it is named "FEDORA" in the finder. >> Now you can run the SoaS USB application which will eject FEDORA from >> the finder, start up virtualbox and the virtual appliance and attach >> the USB. Right now its using the verbose boot process to detect >> errors. >> >> If anyone has a chance to test this out I would appeciate it. Similar >> automated solutions could exist for Windows and Linux virtualbox >> hosts. >> >> -- >> Dave Bauer >> [email protected] >> http://www.solutiongrove.com >> _______________________________________________ >> SoaS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > -- Dave Bauer [email protected] http://www.solutiongrove.com _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
