> 1). Live CD boots and runs fine on a MacBook Pro (though has no > wireless network, or camera support, and screen redraw was a little > slow in some activities so I guess no or little use of gfx hardware > acceleration).
Trisquel is fully free, so we lack of several hardware drivers (no nvidia 3d support, several wifi cards do not work, etc). > 2). Using the Live CD to install trisquel-sugar to a USB stick (my > main test goal). WARNING DATA LOSS: Targeting a USB stick for the > install process worked smoothly, but right at the very end I spotted > it saying "installing grub to hd0". This renders the primary > internal hard disk on a Mac un-bootable. After much > experimentation***, the only safe solution was a fresh re-patrition > of the drive, and to perform a full restore from a back-up (thank > goodness for Apple's Time Machine). But you should not create a usb installation that way! A proper usb-creator is bundled in the iso, you can launch it using the terminal (a graphical launcher is on the go). The usb-creator utility builds a persistent live-usb drive, which will also run much faster than the installed-to-usb-disk method, and with no risk. You can read more about it in the wiki entry: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast > *** PRAM resets, Disk Utility volume recovery, re-setting start-up > disk, blessing from command line, re-install of OS, couple of other > 3rd party recovery tools.... [trim] I'm happy to see you managed to recover it :) > 3). The resulting USB Stick failed to boot on a MacBook (but might > work on other hardware, need to test). The apple bios cannot boot a usb drive, but you can use the live CD as a boot helper, you can read how to do that in the wiki entry too. (It will only work if you use the usb-creator to set up your stick). Thank you very much for your tests. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep