Hi David, I'm the SoaS maintainer.
> I want to demonstrate SOAS to teachers in Vanuatu. I would like to be more > useful, but actually don't have the luxury of time to research these arcane > technical issues in which I am not an expert. I just want to know, is there a > version of SOAS that is properly tested and known to work? I have used SOAS > many times before (years ago) without any problems. Which version is stable > and will boot without errors and not hang on use? The lastest stable version is available here: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/ > Could be hardware? I will try with another flashdrive. Is 2GB of persistent > storage too little/too much? 2Gb should be fine. Ask here on the SoaS list if you've got any other queries or issues. Peter > David Leeming > Solomon Islands > > > -----Original Message----- > From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org > [mailto:sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Iain Brown > Douglas > Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2015 7:52 p.m. > To: David Leeming > Cc: 'Sugar-dev Devel' > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS > > Hi David, > > From what you say, you already did a search for your error message. > > Does this Fedora forum answer cover your issue? > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=301945 > > I have been working with the script livecd-iso-to-disk and it works > fine. > > I am working on SoaS Loader, here is a link to the work in progress. > > http://soas-loader.readthedocs.org/ > > Good luck, and thanks for putting time in trying to demonstrate SoaS :) > > Iain > > > > > On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 10:51 +1100, David Leeming wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I have familiarity with Sugar since working with OLPC from 2008, but I >> haven’t been active in these communities for some time. I’m just >> refreshing myself on current status of Sugar with a view to >> introducing teachers to it in a forthcoming workshop in Vanuatu. We’ll >> be using tablets as well as PCs so I have familiarised myself with >> Sugarizer. I then intended to introduce the wider world of Sugar >> conveniently with SOAS. >> >> >> >> So I have downloaded both the 32-bit and 64-bit iso files and verified >> their hashes. I also download the latest version of USB Live >> Installer. I formatted a fairly new 16GB USB with FAT32 and installed >> SOAS on it leaving 2000Mb of persistent memory. The USB stick is a >> “SanDisk Cruzer Facet 16GB”. >> >> >> >> Immediately I run into problems. When booting (on a fairly recent >> Toshiba i7 laptop) it stops with “vesamenu.c32 not a com32r image”. On >> pressing Tab key I do not see “Live” as an option, but it does start >> with the option linux0. Sugar boots and I can use it for a few >> minutes, I tried Speak and Turtle Art for instance, but within a short >> time it hangs and needs a hard boot. >> >> >> >> I repeated the whole process with the 32-bit (verified) iso file and >> same problem. I’ll give this problem only a few hours as that is all I >> have. But I would like to know what are the requirements for a >> reliable repeatable experience with SOAS, as it says on the website, >> to get Sugar into Vanuatu schools. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> David Leeming >> >> Solomon Islands >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
