On 25.11.2009, at 23:07, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > > Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> On 24.11.2009, at 22:13, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> with the next SoaS release coming up really soon (final image is >>> supposed to be composed this weekend, release date is Dec 8), there's a >>> new snapshot ready for you. It includes a lot of fixes and smaller >>> adjustments. It's currently only available as a general .iso build, >>> others will presumably follow later. You can get it from here: >>> >>> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/soas06.iso >> >> Nice! >> >> As for the instructions on the Mac, it's odd that you need the most skills >> on that platform ;) >> >> I just modified the Linux image-writer script for Mac OS X, see attachment. >> It's a bit safer and more comfortable than using raw dd (e.g., it only >> offers USB drives, shows the volume label not just device node etc). Only >> tested on my own Snow Leopard machine so far - please report back. > > Whoa! :) Great work, thanks! > > I don't have a Mac here, so I can't test it, but I think we'd want to use it > and put the screenshot in the instructions.
Great! >> Of course, doing this with an iso image as in the screenshot is nonsense, >> but there is no real USB image yet, right? When it becomes available, what >> will be its name? > > Oh, you can actually even do that! The F12 .iso images are hybrid ones, so > you can use dd to copy them over to a flash drive... Well, isn't 600 MB an odd size for that? Too big for a 512 MB stick but wastes a lot of space on a bigger one. And when I plug it into the mac, it shows as an ISO 9660 file system. Or what do you mean by "hybrid"? In any case my old boot-helper CD could not boot it from the stick (tried on a Mac mini). - Bert - _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
