Hi David, Sorry, this seem to have fallen through the cracks.
> Iain referred me to a Fedora community where LinuxliveUSB installer was > recommended and it works just fine. It also installs a Linux emulator for > Windows Virtualbox and I found I could run SOAS beautifully in that way. That > is very convenient for my purposes (a quick lead in to Sugar). I also found > few problems booting USB sticks and SD cards installed using LinuxLiveUSB, on > one machine it seems to hang but others it is fine. So it seems the installer > was my issue. I've never seen or heard of the above, I've also never used VirtualBox, glad it works for you. > Regarding collaboration, if we have a few PC computers on the same WLAN > running SOAS, can we expect them to see each other and collaborate in > neighbourhood view, without a server (ie. in the same fashion as XOs on an > ad-hoc network)? I seem to recall doing that with early versions of SOAS. If > not, is there a simple/light way to enable collaboration/presence service on > a local server sufficient to allow a few local SOAS machines to collaborate?. > I am familiar with XS developments (up to 0.7) but in the schools in Vanuatu > we'll be using gateway servers we have developed ourselves based on Debian > (Jessie 8). I believe there's an issue with recent versions on collaboration, I don't remember the exact issues, maybe one of the sugar devs can answer the reasons and when it's expected it can be fixed. Peter > Best, > > David Leeming > Solomon Islands > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Robinson > Sent: Wednesday, 22 July 2015 10:58 a.m. > To: Development of live Sugar distributions > Cc: Sugar-dev Devel; Iain Brown Douglas > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SOAS > > 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: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] 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 >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SoaS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
