Many thanks Peter I successfully added GNOME (500 transactions!), however the system is unstable now - neither Sugar nor GNOME can shut down or reboot the system, and the package installer under GNOME fails systematically. I saw on the forums yumex is a possible solution, but wanted your POV first.
(Irrelevant, but worth mentioning: I found GNOME 3 to be a nearly unusable interface... spent nearly an hour fighting with it to find the package installer... icon display truncated every program name, so I had to launch a dozen programs to figure out what was what... surprised there was no browser I could find in the install, but succeeded in adding Firefox with yum at the command line). I looked for the Sugar/GNOME switcher but didn't find it, did a # yum install olpc-switch-desktop which brought it in. Oddly, GNOME -> Sugar worked (login at blue screen still necessary), but Sugar -> GNOME froze the machine. The system boots with the Sugar animation, then displays the GNOME 3 login screen with the blue background, the desktop choice is hidden under a wrench icon at top right. A hunch, perhaps there is an issue with the account rights? There is still only one account, the admin account native to SoaS.... I don't remember seeing a screen recommending a user account during the Anaconda liveinst. The parameters screen in GNOME would not let me edit or add any accounts. Perhaps repairing this is not time well spent - it's a blank machine, perhaps I'd be better off doing a vanilla F20 install and adding Sugar to it? Note: only 512Mb of RAM and 7 Gb of disk space, could be a contributing factors... I have ordered another 1Gb (max for this netbook). any advice appreciated. thanks. Sean On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Peter et. al., > > > > I successfully booted an Asus netbook with SoaS 10 from an optical disk, > > then did a liveinst and installed to hard disk. > > > > Sugar works great but I have two questions: > > > > 1) Is it possible to install the GNOME desktop too? > > Yes, I run it like that on a number of machines. If you're familiar > enough with a terminal "sudo yum install @gnome-desktop" should be > enough. After a reboot you should have an option to select the desktop > at login. Let me know if you have issues. > > > 2) I have been unable to get my 3G USB card to work. I am fairly sure > this > > card has worked with other machines under Sugar. > > It should work just fine, I'm not aware of any issues with 3G dongles > but I personally don't have a vast array to test with so it's not to > say there's not an issue. Make sure you have all the latest OS updates > applied and if it still doesn't work if you can include some more > details of make/model/carrier I can help get it sorted. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >
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