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 disk when re-inserted. Good luck Tom Gilliard satellit Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi Again, Tom and SoaS Team, > > I'm really struggling with this! I accidently stumbled on the method > described below, which seems to have worked. Now... when I put the disk in > and open it to see what is there it shows a picture of a disk and says > "soas-1-strawberry.iso" under it. The Blueberry disk has a similar image. Is > this correct? > > The boot helper disk is very different. It shows these files: BOOT.CAT, > INITRD0.IMG, ISOLINUX.BIN, ISOLINUX.CFG, SPLASH.JPG, VESAMENU.C32, and > VMLINUZ0. Is that what it is supposed to have on it? > > Here is how I did the Live CD for Strawberry that seems to be right (I won't > know until Tuesday afternoon when I try it on a PC): > > ********************************************** > Open the Sugar Creation Kit and in the file window > > Click on the "soas-1-strawberry.iso" file to highlight it > > The Finder will be running > > Open the File menu in the Finder and select: > > Burn "soas-1-strawberry.iso" to disk > > Insert CD at prompt > > Window opens, name it, choose burn speed, Click "Burn" > > ************************************************************* > > Now I am trying to figure out how to do the usb sticks. What would happen if > I just dragged and dropped the SoaS file over and let it load on (copy to) > the stick? Whenever I try to do anything in Terminal it doesn't understand > the commands I am entering. > > I did successfully make a Soas on a usb on a PC back in January. It was the > same one that later crashed my daughter-in-law's laptop because I hadn't > allotted storage space for the Journal and it quickly filled up and froze the > whole system! > > If there are any other easier, more specific instructions for the Mac, please > point me in the right direction. Maybe I will have to do it with a direct > download even though it takes a lot of time. That is what worked on the PC. > Help! > > Caryl > > Note to the rest of you... if you think I am having problems, just wait until > we get the classroom teachers started on this! We need to get me through > this so I can help them! > > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 16:54:18 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SoaS] Sugar-Creation-Kit DVD (preliminary version): > "soas-1-strawberry.iso" problem > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > I am still working my way through the resources in the Sugar Creation Kit and > I ran into a snag when trying to make the Strawberry Live CD. The Blueberry > (v.2) appears to be OK with the disk having 581.9 MG written to it (I will > test it on a PC at a friends house Tuesday afternoon). > > I tried the same process with Strawberry (v.1) and ended up with a CD with > only 8.4 MB on it. Looking at the back, you can see that very little space > was used. I thought I would try again, so I put in another new CD. When I > got the info on the file I had downloaded (for the DVD but also saved on my > computer), it said it was 379.9 MB but when I moved it to a burn folder to > make the live CD it shrank to 44MB! I didn't try to burn another with this > file because something seems to be amiss. > > > Caryl; > > I took a DVD burned from a downloaded DVD.iso of v05 Sugar Creation Kit > > copied soas-1-strawberry.iso to the desktop from the DVD > > Burned it to a CD > > > > I did this same procedure in a PC running Ubuntu9.04 > > and my wifes' Apple G4 Laptop > > > > The CD Burned on the apple works fine on the PC with Ubuntu. > > Both CD's showed the same properties: > > "Soas2-200906221314" > > "25 items, totalling 387.6 MB" > > > > This appears to have been an computer error on your end. Please try > again. : ) > > > > Tom Gilliard > > satellit > > > > > > > I'm going to proceed with trying to make some of the other things like the > boot helper CD and the usb stick versions and see if I can get anything to > run in an updated Virtual Box on my MacBook. > > But, what could be the problem with the "soas-1-strawberry.iso?" > > More later! > > Caryl > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
