Hi George and All,
OK, so I tried changing the name of the SoaS usb stick to "FEDORA" in the
finder on 2 different Macs, running 10.4 and 10.5. It wasn't an option on
either... but I found out why. I just don't know how to fix it.
I did the get-info process (highlight the item on the screen, then "command-i".
At the very bottom I expanded "Sharing & Permissions"....
"You can only read"
So.... that explains why I can't change the name and why the Name and Color
Combination choices don't persist between boots (recall... I was able to boot
it with the extra step of holding down the "c" key while booting with the boot
helper disk and then "Tab" and editing the text that appears on the screen as
suggested by George below).
So... How do we create an SoaS stick that isn't "read only"????
Caryl
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:17:23 -0400
From: georgejh...@gmail.com
To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [support-gang] SoaS Almost Passes the "Teacher Test"... but not
quite.
on my OSX10.4, if you open finder, <ctl>click on the usb name in the left
column, I am given the option to rename the USB stick.
George
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi George and All,
Thanks to George's patience and persistence and all of the hints you sent, I
finally got the image-writer-mac program to work and make a SoaS usb stick. We
used the method where we dragged the files over from a finder window to the
terminal window.
I feel sure it is good, but I don't have a handy PC to try it on and there is
a funny problem trying to boot it on the MacBook with the help of the Boot
Helper CD. I got that same fateful sounding "sleeping forever" message that
someone else got earlier in the week.
The MacBook, requires a boot helper disk that looks for a usb stick named
FEDORA. I suspect they wrote it that way so it can also be used with
Strawberry and with other future versions of SoaS. However, this stick is named
"soas-2-blueberry", not FEDORA.
Well I tried to rename the usb stick "FEDORA" when it was finished so I could
use it on the MacBook, but, try as I may, I cannot change the name. I even
tried it on Ed's computer too (a G4 Powerbook) with no luck. I can change the
name of any other file or other usb stick, but not this one. It is apparently
"soas-2-blueberry", forever.
I even tried another tack. I changed the name of the "soas-2-blueberry.iso"
file to "FEDORA.iso" before going to terminal to run the image-writer-mac
program again and make another stick. It still wrote the name as
"soas-2-blueberry". So now, I have made 2 SoaS usb drives I can probably use on
PCs, but not on Macs.
Finally, I tried the method one of you put up a few days ago where you boot
holding down the C key, then the Tab, then change the instructions in the edit
mode. While this did work, it is definitely not "Teacher-friendly."
If someone could figure out a way to change the name of the usb stick from
"soas-2-blueberry" to FEDORA somewhere along the way when making the SoaS
stick, we would have something that definitely would meet the "teacher test."
I repeat, all usual methods failed. Any ideas???
I still have 8 days before InfoTech.
Caryl
BTW, The choice of "Name" and color combination did not persist from boot to
boot.
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