Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-24 Thread Lucian Branescu
blessing would be useful for enabling 'boot from USB'. 'boot from CD'
or 'boot from USB with helper CD' don't need it.

2009/5/24 Andrea Mangiatordi :
> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> You cannot run the currently released SoaS on a PowerPC Macintosh.
>
> That's why I wrote "so I can't test it directly" ;)
>
>> SoaS is only currently compiled for 32bit x86, which works on amd64 but
>> not on PowerPC.
>
> Yeah, I had to use jhbuild and precompiled ubuntu packages in order to
> try and use Sugar.
>
> I don't really know if the boot management system is the same on all
> Macs, what I wanted to say is that there are live Linux distributions
> for both series and those distros only include free software, so there
> won't be any need for the developers to use proprietary blessings.
>
> Kind regards
>
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-24 Thread Andrea Mangiatordi
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> You cannot run the currently released SoaS on a PowerPC Macintosh.

That's why I wrote "so I can't test it directly" ;)

> SoaS is only currently compiled for 32bit x86, which works on amd64 but
> not on PowerPC.

Yeah, I had to use jhbuild and precompiled ubuntu packages in order to 
try and use Sugar.

I don't really know if the boot management system is the same on all 
Macs, what I wanted to say is that there are live Linux distributions 
for both series and those distros only include free software, so there 
won't be any need for the developers to use proprietary blessings.

Kind regards

Andrea

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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 03:45:21PM -0300, Andrea Mangiatordi wrote:
>Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Beware that if "blessing" is similar to that of classic MacOS, then 
>> it includes adding a small binary piece that is *not* free software.  
>> In other words, it may be illegal to publish SoaS as pre-blessed 
>> images.
>
>Hi everybody,
>I have a pre-Intel mac, so I can't test it directly, but AFAIK there 
>are many linux distributions which run flawlessly on a Mac (both 
>powerpc and intel) and they even have a livecd option (I can think of 
>Ubuntu, but there can be others). So, if Ubuntu can boot, there should 
>be a free software way to do it..

You cannot run the currently released SoaS on a PowerPC Macintosh.

The reason MacOS X seemingly runs across platforms is that all its 
components are compiled for both platforms.

SoaS is only currently compiled for 32bit x86, which works on amd64 but 
not on PowerPC.

Yes, it is certainly possible to run Linux on PowerPC (and ARM, and 
Motorola 68k and a lot of other platforms), SoaS is just not prepared 
for that yet, and most probably if/when it happens, it will be provided 
as a separate image, not a combined one for multiple platforms as with 
some Apple software.


(...as far as I am aware - I am not directly involved in the SoaS work)


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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-23 Thread James Zaki
I have a new macbook, but have seen issue 1 and not 2.
Is there some sequence of usb/cd creation I should try that might produce
the problem?

Its intel mac only, right? My partner has a desktop mac running leopard, but
its intel also. I can later try on this setup if it would be of value.

Cheers,
James.


2009/5/23 Caroline Meeks 

> Hi Caryl,
>
> How is it going?
>
> I know of two potentail issues.
>
> 1. Getting the right materials. At sugar camp we found that the USB created
> on the macbook was not working, only a PC created USB seemed to work. Plus
> you need both the USB and the boot helper.
>
> 2. some macbooks have a bug, when you boot everything goes fine through
> most of the boot and just when you are about to get to Sugar you get a
> mostly black screen with a sqiggle in the middle.
>
> Where are you at? I especially need people with problem #2 because I don't
> have a test machine that shows it and its a show stopper for me for all work
> in Boston Public Schools because their macbooks have this issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
> 2009/5/20 Caryl Bigenho 
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>
>> I downloaded soas-beta.iso to my MacBook and burned it to a disk.  I would
>> like to get it to boot and be usable on the MacBook.  Does anyone know how
>> to do this?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Caryl
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
2009/5/20 Bert Freudenberg 

> Note that much of the appeal of SoaS comes from not requiring to
> modify the machine it is about to run on. So rEFIt is no option for
> general use, it's not what we could recommend to teachers.


+1

When I talked to a school IT person who was very linux friendly and really
supportive of the project he was still *very* concerned that it was
something kids could use without modifying the carefully chosen image that
every student macbook in the school had.

In the short term, SoaS in the wild needs to work without installing any
software on the host computer.

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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:07:09PM +1000, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>rEFIt is clean to remove, just delete the directory on the OSX 
>partition and restart to return to the original settings. What is nice 
>is that it gives users a better handle on the other start up options.

Hopefully, yes.

See "Troubleshooting" at this page: 
http://refit.sourceforge.net/doc/c1s3_remove.html


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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 19:04, Bert Freudenberg  wrote:
> Note that much of the appeal of SoaS comes from not requiring to
> modify the machine it is about to run on. So rEFIt is no option for
> general use, it's not what we could recommend to teachers.

I agree to some point but also feel that SoaS can also be useful in
cases where people have more control on their hardware. I think we
should leave the options open.

Regards,

Tomeu

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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Roland Gesthuizen
rEFIt is clean to remove, just delete the directory on the OSX partition and
restart to return to the original settings. What is nice is that it gives
users a better handle on the other start up options.

Regards Roland

2009/5/21 Lucian Branescu 

> And is distinguishing between other linux distros and Sugar even desirable?
>
> My macbook is off to be repaired so I can't test, but AFAIK both the
> SoaS and the .iso should be recognised as Linux by rEFIt and booted.
>
> 2009/5/20 Jonas Smedegaard :
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> >>and some technical support, they could include a sugar icon and ensure
> >>that it is correctly detected on bootup. This would include any
> >>bootable CDROMs in an iMac computer on startup such as Sugar.
> >> http://venublog.com/images/mac/refit.png
> >
> > How would that work?
> >
> > I mean, how to distinguish a Sugar-only installation from e.g. a Debian
> > installation containing (among other desktop environments) Sugar?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> >  - Jonas
> >
> > ...using rEFIt on my laptop for quite some time :-)
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:04:03AM -0700, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>Note that much of the appeal of SoaS comes from not requiring to  
>modify the machine it is about to run on. So rEFIt is no option for  
>general use, it's not what we could recommend to teachers.

Good point!


I am satisfied with rEFIt on my own machine, but still would not install 
it on the machine of a friend that I would demo Linux on.

I would only apply rEFIt _after_ my friend was confident with Linux and 
wanted to keep it: rEFIt gets installed on the hardware (i.e. does not 
disappear when the CD or USB key is removed), and in case of error you 
cannot start your old MacOS (you may need an original MacOS X install 
DVD, or perhaps even need some other rescue tool!).


Replace "Linux" above with SoaS if that makes more sense to you.


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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Lucian Branescu
Perhaps, but to me it seems a very good option, especially when
compared to requiring a helper CD and an arcane key press combination

. rEFIt is tiny and quite useful by itself, since the default apple
bootloader doesn't offer any feedback.

2009/5/20 Bert Freudenberg :
> Note that much of the appeal of SoaS comes from not requiring to
> modify the machine it is about to run on. So rEFIt is no option for
> general use, it's not what we could recommend to teachers.
>
> - Bert -
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Note that much of the appeal of SoaS comes from not requiring to  
modify the machine it is about to run on. So rEFIt is no option for  
general use, it's not what we could recommend to teachers.

- Bert -

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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Lucian Branescu
s/Sugar/Sugar on a Stick/

Still, it should just show up as Linux (USB).

2009/5/20 Jonas Smedegaard :
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> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote:
>>And is distinguishing between other linux distros and Sugar even
>>desirable?
>>
>>My macbook is off to be repaired so I can't test, but AFAIK both the
>>SoaS and the .iso should be recognised as Linux by rEFIt and booted.
>
> Sugar is *not* a Linux distribution!
>
> OLPC is/provides a Linux distribution, in that it contains the classic
> GNU/Linux base (Linux kernel + some GNU userspace tools) and the Sugar
> desktop environment on top of that.
>
> SoaS is a Linux distribution too.
>
> MacOS X is a non-Linux distribution, consisting of the Darwin base with
> Aqua on top.
>
> Debian is a distribution providing (in testing and unstable at least) a
> choice of multiple bases (Linux, kFreeBSD, Hurd) and multiple desktops
> (GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, GNUstep and a half-baked Sugar).
>
> Sugar itself is distributed (as is most free software), but is not an
> operating system + some userspace.
>
>
> I would suspect that rEFIt not recognize X11 desktops, and not userspace
> parts - only kernels.
>
> But even if rEFIt recognizes desktops, how to then resolve which is the
> _main_ desktop, and if the main desktop is the preferred environment
> over e.g. the terminal or some virtual (X11-based or not) environment.
>
>
> Hope that clarifies (and feel free to disagree with my judgements!).
>
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote:
>And is distinguishing between other linux distros and Sugar even 
>desirable?
>
>My macbook is off to be repaired so I can't test, but AFAIK both the 
>SoaS and the .iso should be recognised as Linux by rEFIt and booted.

Sugar is *not* a Linux distribution!

OLPC is/provides a Linux distribution, in that it contains the classic 
GNU/Linux base (Linux kernel + some GNU userspace tools) and the Sugar 
desktop environment on top of that.

SoaS is a Linux distribution too.

MacOS X is a non-Linux distribution, consisting of the Darwin base with 
Aqua on top.

Debian is a distribution providing (in testing and unstable at least) a 
choice of multiple bases (Linux, kFreeBSD, Hurd) and multiple desktops 
(GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, GNUstep and a half-baked Sugar).

Sugar itself is distributed (as is most free software), but is not an 
operating system + some userspace.


I would suspect that rEFIt not recognize X11 desktops, and not userspace 
parts - only kernels.

But even if rEFIt recognizes desktops, how to then resolve which is the 
_main_ desktop, and if the main desktop is the preferred environment 
over e.g. the terminal or some virtual (X11-based or not) environment.


Hope that clarifies (and feel free to disagree with my judgements!).

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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Lucian Branescu
And is distinguishing between other linux distros and Sugar even desirable?

My macbook is off to be repaired so I can't test, but AFAIK both the
SoaS and the .iso should be recognised as Linux by rEFIt and booted.

2009/5/20 Jonas Smedegaard :
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> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:03:45PM +1000, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>>If somebody here supports the rEFIt developer with a suitable graphics
>>and some technical support, they could include a sugar icon and ensure
>>that it is correctly detected on bootup. This would include any
>>bootable CDROMs in an iMac computer on startup such as Sugar.
>>     http://venublog.com/images/mac/refit.png
>
> How would that work?
>
> I mean, how to distinguish a Sugar-only installation from e.g. a Debian
> installation containing (among other desktop environments) Sugar?
>
> Kind regards,
>
>  - Jonas
>
> ...using rEFIt on my laptop for quite some time :-)
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:03:45PM +1000, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>If somebody here supports the rEFIt developer with a suitable graphics 
>and some technical support, they could include a sugar icon and ensure 
>that it is correctly detected on bootup. This would include any 
>bootable CDROMs in an iMac computer on startup such as Sugar.
> http://venublog.com/images/mac/refit.png

How would that work?

I mean, how to distinguish a Sugar-only installation from e.g. a Debian 
installation containing (among other desktop environments) Sugar?

Kind regards,

  - Jonas

...using rEFIt on my laptop for quite some time :-)

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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Roland Gesthuizen
rEFIt is good .. we use it at our college for multiboot access (OSX,
Windows, Linux etc.) I modify one file to prevent hostile access to some EFI
functions. If somebody here supports the rEFIt developer with a suitable
graphics and some technical support, they could include a sugar icon and
ensure that it is correctly detected on bootup. This would include any
bootable CDROMs in an iMac computer on startup such as Sugar.
 http://venublog.com/images/mac/refit.png

Regards Roland

2009/5/20 Lucian Branescu 

> rEFIt http://refit.sourceforge.net/ is akin to GRUB, but nicer. It
> detects and shows all boot options.
>
> 2009/5/20 Sean DALY :
> > This may be helpful too:
> >
> > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Sean DALY  wrote:
> >> For completeness, here are the documented Apple OSX keyboard
> >> shortcuts, stable over the past six versions (10.0->10.5):
> >>
> >> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343
> >>
> >> Potentially useful at boot time: the Option key (looks like a ski
> >> slope) to show & select bootable volumes
> >>
> >> Sean
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Dave Bauer 
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Edward Cherlin 
> wrote:
> 
>  On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Caryl Bigenho  >
>  wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I downloaded soas-beta.iso to my MacBook and burned it to a disk.  I
>  > would
>  > like to get it to boot and be usable on the MacBook.  Does anyone
> know
>  > how
>  > to do this?
> 
>  Most x86 ISOs boot just fine on an x86 Mac with no preparation other
>  than to tell MacOS to boot from the CD. PPC, no. ^_^
> >>>
> >>> You can reboot and hold down the "C" key to boot from the CDROM.
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> 
>  > Thanks,
>  >
>  > Caryl
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Lucian Branescu
rEFIt http://refit.sourceforge.net/ is akin to GRUB, but nicer. It
detects and shows all boot options.

2009/5/20 Sean DALY :
> This may be helpful too:
>
> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Sean DALY  wrote:
>> For completeness, here are the documented Apple OSX keyboard
>> shortcuts, stable over the past six versions (10.0->10.5):
>>
>> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343
>>
>> Potentially useful at boot time: the Option key (looks like a ski
>> slope) to show & select bootable volumes
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Dave Bauer  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Edward Cherlin  wrote:

 On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Caryl Bigenho 
 wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I downloaded soas-beta.iso to my MacBook and burned it to a disk.  I
 > would
 > like to get it to boot and be usable on the MacBook.  Does anyone know
 > how
 > to do this?

 Most x86 ISOs boot just fine on an x86 Mac with no preparation other
 than to tell MacOS to boot from the CD. PPC, no. ^_^
>>>
>>> You can reboot and hold down the "C" key to boot from the CDROM.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>

 > Thanks,
 >
 > Caryl
 >
 > ___
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 >



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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Sean DALY
This may be helpful too:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310



On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Sean DALY  wrote:
> For completeness, here are the documented Apple OSX keyboard
> shortcuts, stable over the past six versions (10.0->10.5):
>
> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343
>
> Potentially useful at boot time: the Option key (looks like a ski
> slope) to show & select bootable volumes
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Dave Bauer  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Edward Cherlin  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Caryl Bigenho 
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I downloaded soas-beta.iso to my MacBook and burned it to a disk.  I
>>> > would
>>> > like to get it to boot and be usable on the MacBook.  Does anyone know
>>> > how
>>> > to do this?
>>>
>>> Most x86 ISOs boot just fine on an x86 Mac with no preparation other
>>> than to tell MacOS to boot from the CD. PPC, no. ^_^
>>
>> You can reboot and hold down the "C" key to boot from the CDROM.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>>
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > Caryl
>>> >
>>> > ___
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>>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Sean DALY
For completeness, here are the documented Apple OSX keyboard
shortcuts, stable over the past six versions (10.0->10.5):

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343

Potentially useful at boot time: the Option key (looks like a ski
slope) to show & select bootable volumes

Sean



On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Dave Bauer  wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Edward Cherlin  wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Caryl Bigenho 
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I downloaded soas-beta.iso to my MacBook and burned it to a disk.  I
>> > would
>> > like to get it to boot and be usable on the MacBook.  Does anyone know
>> > how
>> > to do this?
>>
>> Most x86 ISOs boot just fine on an x86 Mac with no preparation other
>> than to tell MacOS to boot from the CD. PPC, no. ^_^
>
> You can reboot and hold down the "C" key to boot from the CDROM.
>
> Dave
>
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Caryl
>> >
>> > ___
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>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Edward Cherlin  wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Caryl Bigenho 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I downloaded soas-beta.iso to my MacBook and burned it to a disk.  I
> would
> > like to get it to boot and be usable on the MacBook.  Does anyone know
> how
> > to do this?
>
> Most x86 ISOs boot just fine on an x86 Mac with no preparation other
> than to tell MacOS to boot from the CD. PPC, no. ^_^
>

You can reboot and hold down the "C" key to boot from the CDROM.

Dave


>
> > Thanks,
> >
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> >
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