Thanks for catching this, Tom - and for bringing it up, Tabitha! Short snip from IRC discussion on this between myself and Tom just now:
03:07 < mchua> satellit__: On the other hand, you pointed tabs to a script that worked for her, which is awesome (and helpful, thank you!) 03:08 < mchua> which is imo the right thing to do - but is also an unsupported install path 03:08 < mchua> so as long as that's understood and she's ok with it, that's great So, regarding Tom's suggested temporary fix - livecd-iso-to-disk.sh should work (I've tried it before myself) but isn't a supported install method at the moment, just so you know. Mostly because of limited resource to maintain things - it seems to work now, but we may not have the manpower to diagnose/fix it if it breaks.[0] It's tough - I've been on Tabitha/Tom's side of the equation a lot, and you just want something that "just works." From a support engineer perspective, though, I'm thinking "oh wow, how do we make this scale?" and so I'd like to see if we can make our existing supported install methods easier to find and use. If Tabitha, one of our long-time dedicated testers, runs into this issue, who knows how many other people will? Tabitha, if you have a moment to help us chase this down - I'm trying to figure out what happened here, and how to fix it. As best as I can tell, you started on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mirabelle and clicked the "download" button, which gets you to http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads 03:23 < mchua> and on there, we say "For a guided walkthrough of the process of creating and using your stick, including on non-Fedora systems or using virtualization, read the Creation Kit." The Creation Kit has instructions for Linux distributions, http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/creation-kit/sect-Creation_Kit-Preparation-Linux_Instructions-Other.html - do these work for you? (Are those instructions broken? Not findable?) --Mel [0] To elaborate - It makes sense to offer as few options as possible, since we can't maintain lots of different install paths - every release, we can make sure liveusb-creator works and unetbootin work, but we can't necessarly test 15 scripts and 4 different graphical iso-to-usb programs on 6 operating systems. I believe liveusb-creator was chosen because it's a graphical option and a lot of our intended userbase (teachers, etc) are intimidated by command line options like livecd-iso-to-disk.sh. _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
