Hi Peter, On 14 Sep 2010, at 22:06, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, [email protected] >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM, [email protected] >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hi Walter, >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> I've been doing some work on the Get Sugar landing page in the wiki, >>>>>> which has been the source of some confusion amongst our potential user >>>>>> community. My proposed modifications (See >>>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/Get_Sugar) are an attempt to >>>>>> streamline and consolidate the instructions for first-time users. >>>>>> Feedback and testing requested. >>>>> >>>>> Some feedback.... >>>>> >>>>> For the Mac side of things I think we would be better dealing with it >>>>> from a direct boot option and then having a separate virtualisation >>>>> option as in terms of GUI say VirtualBox is the same across all >>>>> platforms. >>>> >>>> Do we have a robust direct boot option? I thought that was still >>>> causing more headaches than it was worth (from the support >>>> perspective). >>> >>> 64 bit yes, and the other graphics issues will be fixed by Fedora 14 >>> beta (if they're not already). >> >> Where are the instructions for the 64-bit version? The only >> instructions I can find >> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mac) refer to a helper >> CD. > > Not sure about the wiki but they're here: > > http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads > > There are two problems with the Mac platform: > 1) Linux doesn't support 32 bit platforms from 64 bit EFI systems. > This is a kernel issue and is the case on all platforms. Someone I > know at one of the major server companies was going to have a look at > this for me as all their new servers will be 64 bit and are EFI based > and while they will only support 64 bit on them they have customers > that will want to run 32 bit. I've followed up but not heard anything > back. > > 2) Graphics support due to some random way the Mac platform deals with > its GPU initialisation. This will be fixed for F-14 (and so SoaSv4). > The patches might also fix #1 but I don't have Macs to test. > > # 2 should be in the F-14 beta so testers would be welcome on 64 bit > and it would be interesting to see if it also fixes #1 as well. Many thanks for pushing on this, and your link above. I'd pretty much given up ever booting a Fedora based spin on my Macs, I almost always end up in a catch 22 case of no working network, and no working gfx driver while trying to debug what's actually broken. I'm away on a pretty low speed Internet connection just now so I'll need to wait a few weeks till I'm back in Edinburgh, but feel free to ping me in the future if you have a Mac images in need of test! Regards, --Gary > Regards, > Peter > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
