Re: [IAEP] SoaS install instructions on wiki
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Kevin Coledc.l...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth, here's a slightly colorized log of my successful burn on Ubuntu Jaunty, burned 2009-08-24. I don't know that it offers anything that hasn't been said elsewhere, but it is pretty much start to finish, with the possible exception of not having explicitly set the partition type to FAT32. http://research.gallaudet.edu/Tutorials/SoaS-2009-08-24.html I tried your instructions this morning (with the new beta image). Worked great except for some reason, I could not get the livecd-iso-to-disk.sh script to accept either the --delete-home or --unencrypted-home options. Only the latter appears in the --help for the script. Curious. In any case, my Classmate booted!! First time I have been able to burn a SoaS from Ubuntu to date. Thanks for working this out. Could you update the wiki with your instructions? (You may want to indicate to the uninitiated at what point the USB stick should be inserted/removed. Disclaimers: Use at your own risk. Contents may settle during shipping. Your mileage may vary. The secretary will disavow any knowledge... Batteries not included. What me, worry? -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] SoaS install instructions on wiki
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 19:30, Dennis Danielsdennisgdani...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not the target market for SoaS but I am a teacher and I know a little Linux and run Fedora11 and Ubuntu9.04 and XP. I hope to one day build a networked SoaS lab from used computers and teach Scratch and etc to my students. Install instructions for SoaS are a bit of a mess. Here is a page I wrote trying to follow installation instructions exactly from Ubuntu 9.04, with screencasts: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/One_tester%27s_attempt_at_installing_SoaS I spent 90 minutes doing my best to do as instructed but ended with failure. Teachers normally don't put in that kind of effort on strange technologies. I was not successful in my attempt to install SoaS on a USB stick even with support from the Sugar irc (which most users of Sugar/teachers don't use). This makes clears instructions on installation pages on the wiki all the more valuable. My request is simple: Sugar people please review the SoaS installation instructions for your distro on the Sugar labs wiki and try to follow the instructions exactly as written, as I did, to install Sugar on a USB stick and rewrite/clarify/document where possible. As my efforts to install failed, I'm not the best person to write about how it's done. I agree that the instructions need to be reduced to a minimum that works in as many situations as possible. Other linux distros have this same problem and we can see how they expose the main path and then the secondary ones. Comments/ corrections/criticism welcome. With thanks to all for the generous support of the past and future! Dennis p.s. I would recommend that the Sugar project make a little more effort to get Ubuntu users who represent 4x as many users as Fedora (http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.php). Getting Ubuntu people to play more with Sugar would seem to be good for the project and for development. I do know that Sugar has a very close relationship with Fedora. Well, it's more that the Sugar project is composed by whoever does stuff with Sugar and to date the members of the Ubuntu community have been more interested in using Sugar than supporting it in their distro. That said, some members of the Sugar community have bitten the bullet and done packages that allow Sugar run on Ubuntu. Aleksey's packages: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Using_sugar_PPAs And I also have heard of some other people working on this same problem. I would love to hear the status of those other efforts. Regards, Tomeu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] SoaS install instructions on wiki
I'm not the target market for SoaS but I am a teacher and I know a little Linux and run Fedora11 and Ubuntu9.04 and XP. I hope to one day build a networked SoaS lab from used computers and teach Scratch and etc to my students. Install instructions for SoaS are a bit of a mess. Here is a page I wrote trying to follow installation instructions exactly from Ubuntu 9.04, with screencasts: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/One_tester%27s_attempt_at_installing_SoaS I spent 90 minutes doing my best to do as instructed but ended with failure. Teachers normally don't put in that kind of effort on strange technologies. I was not successful in my attempt to install SoaS on a USB stick even with support from the Sugar irc (which most users of Sugar/teachers don't use). This makes clears instructions on installation pages on the wiki all the more valuable. My request is simple: Sugar people please review the SoaS installation instructions for your distro on the Sugar labs wiki and try to follow the instructions exactly as written, as I did, to install Sugar on a USB stick and rewrite/clarify/document where possible. As my efforts to install failed, I'm not the best person to write about how it's done. Comments/ corrections/criticism welcome. With thanks to all for the generous support of the past and future! Dennis p.s. I would recommend that the Sugar project make a little more effort to get Ubuntu users who represent 4x as many users as Fedora (http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.php). Getting Ubuntu people to play more with Sugar would seem to be good for the project and for development. I do know that Sugar has a very close relationship with Fedora. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
