> Ok. Here is the first problem! There is no way to create a > SoaS USB stick on a Mac.
what about create a minimal fedora appliance for VirtualBox (eventalually stripped down to the basic) with the liveusb-creator already installed & ready ? Moreover in the appliance fs there could already be stored the soas image in a well known location, so it would be oneshot download... Shure It's a waste of download-space but should do the trick? Does It? BTW I assume that a VB fedora VM is able to write an USB stick properly... Then the enduser detailed procedure should be: 1. Download the VM image properly packed 2. boot it into Virtual Box 3. mount the USB stick in the VM 4. run liveusb-creator available in the VM 5. prepare the stick (cicle 3 to 5 as desired). ciao Carlo (F) --- Gio 29/10/09, Dave Bauer <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Da: Dave Bauer <[email protected]> > Oggetto: Re: [SoaS] Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X > A: "Caryl Bigenho" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Sugar-Labs Mailing lists" <[email protected]> > Data: Giovedì 29 ottobre 2009, 14:01 > 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 > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
