Caroline, Sorry to confuse you with Caryl. Don't know why I did that.
I'll try making up a Fedora 12 CD and booting from it. As I understand it, your idea is simply to see if I can boot the Fedora Live CD, not that this would be an alternative way to boot SoaS Blueberry. I was able to boot SoaS Strawberry using a boot helper CD before, so I was surprised that the boot helper CD for Blueberry didn't work. James Simmons On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Caroline Meeks <carol...@solutiongrove.com> wrote: > I think you meant this question for me, Caroline not Caryl, > You should be able to boot to Fedora from a CD made from the ISO here, > installation is optional I think. > http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora > You mentioned that you had two older machines that were not booting > Blueberry from the boothelper. I am curious whether they will boot a normal > Fedora 12 CD. > Thanks, > Caroline > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Jim Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Caryl, >> >> Not sure what you mean by a straight Fedora 12 CD. The only Fedora 12 >> CD I'm familiar with runs F12 as a live CD system and gives you the >> option to install it to your hard disk by double-clicking an icon on >> the GNOME desktop. I don't see how that's going to help me boot from >> a USB or for that matter boot from the CD but use the USB the way the >> SoaS boot CD does. >> >> If you can clear this up I'd appreciate it. >> >> James Simmons >> >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > 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 >> > > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
