Jim, With the older machines that failed to boot, can you try a straight F12 CD and see if that works?
Thanks, Caroline On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Jim Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > Caryl, > > If you do choose to use a Boot Helper CD make sure you test booting up > from it before you go. When I tried Blueberry myself I found that I > could boot off the USB itself just fine on a newer PC that supports > booting directly from USB. However, I tried using two other older > machines that needed a boot helper CD and neither of them was able to > boot with the CD. The pretty boot art with the circle of dots seems > to work OK until it is time to draw the final two dots and then it > hangs. Note that I have used these machines with Strawberry and > earlier SoaS and their corresponding boot CDs, so the evidence seems > to point to the helper CD itself. > > I did report this on BugTraq: > > http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1626 > > James Simmons > > > > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:47:25 -0800 > > From: Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> > > Subject: [IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina > > To: IAEP SugarLabs <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>, Developers List > > <de...@lists.laptop.org> > > Message-ID: <snt118-w15f3515bc439d32a18d0c5cc...@phx.gbl> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > > > H All i... > > > > > > Did this ever get implemented? If so where do I find it? Are there any > special instructions I need to make and use the live CD? Can a usb stick be > used for file storage? > > > > > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Sugar_LiveCD > > > > > > I would like to be able to take several copies with me to give to a tech > person at an elementary school in Buenos Aires when I go there in > mid-January. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Caryl > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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