On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Art Hunkins <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've noticed that neither the SoaS CD Boot Helper nor the SoaS Floppy Disk >> Boot Helper manage to boot SoaS Mirabelle (Fedora 13). (For that matter, the >> Floppy Disk Helper doesn't boot anything but Strawberry.) > > I don't think Floppy Disks are relevant at all. I doubt any of the > developers actually have a floppy drive to test. > > For the boot helper CD..... I have no interest in getting it working, > I have asked people to provide me specific devices that have problems > and need the boot helper CD. The only one i've ever got back is newer > Mac's. I know what that problem is. For the rest no one has bothered > to send me the specs so I haven't bothered spending the time. >
I will dig up the old thread where I did offer the specs of the machines we encounter in the Boston Public Schools that will not boot directly off of USB, but are quite happy with a Helper CD. This is also true of the computer we have worked with at the YMCA. I suspect this is true of most of the computers in elementary schools and available to afterschool programs in much of the urban United States. Think Windows-2000-era machines and you will know what is in schools States-side. -walter >> Is anybody interested in working on this, or are we basically abandoning >> older computers? > > See above. > > Peter > >> Art Hunkins >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mel Chua" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; >> "iaep" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "SoaS" >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 10:48 AM >> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Heads-up: POSSE folks hacking in Fedora/Sugar >> thisweek and next >> >> >>> >>> Next week we'll have another - slightly larger - batch from RIT doing >>> the same thing, with myself, Chris Tyler, and Luke Macken focusing more >>> on how to make Fedora a better environment for >>> running/deploying/developing Sugar - if you have any thoughts in this >>> direction, please send comments our way! (Things we've come up with so >>> far: general Python development stuff, liveusb-creator hacks, SVG >>> rendering working strangely in different recent versions of Fedora... we >>> need to turn this into a proper ticket queue.) >>> >>> Just wanted to let y'all know. I'll blog this to Planet in a moment. >>> >>> --Mel >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SoaS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >> > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
