Hi All...
Here, at last, is an SoaS progress report along with some more questions. As
you may recall, I am hoping to have a good working version of SoaS to
distribute to interested educators at the LAUSD Tech Fair at the LA Convention
Center on April 24. <http://sites.google.com/site/lausdinfotech2010/>.
This afternoon I took my things over to a friend's house where they have 2 PCs
running Windows XP. We were successful in making a SoaS v2 usb stick using the
file on the "Starter Kit" Tom Gilliard made and the Fedora LiveUSB Creator
(which my friend reluctantly downloaded).
The resulting USB would not boot alone, but with the help of the Book Helper CD
(made from the file on Tom's starter kit) it worked fine. His machine was a
Compaq impressario or something like that.
When I got home, I tried the stick on my MacBook, using the Boot Helper CD, and
it worked!
This is great! But there are still some problems and questions.
1) I burned both the Strawberry and Blueberry files on CDs, thinking they would
be live CDs... wrong! Neither would boot on my friend's PC. He said it is
because they are "iso" files. Did I miss something? How do I turn these files
into a bootable file that I can burn to a CD to make a live CD?
2) Is there any way to return to the Home View from the Journal when running
SoaS on a Mac? The frame that shows the Home View button is not visible and
there doesn't seem to be a way to access it. If is "iffy," but visible, on the
PC (comes and goes). Could there be a keyboard shortcut for this?
3) There is a problem with the "image-writer-mac" file. I have tried to open
the one on Tom's starter kit and have also downloaded it several times and
tried. It will not open. I always get this error message:
"The document “image-writer-mac” could not be opened. PythonLauncher cannot
open files of this type."
A a small PythonLauncher Preferences window also opens with several options to
choose including, "Reset to factory settings". I haven't a clue what to do
with it, but perhaps I could change something so it will open the
image-writer-mac file?
This is enough for now. I'm sure more will come up, but getting these answered
will be a good start.
Thanks!
Caryl
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