Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All This is great news! I will work on learning to do this when I get back to SoCal in Dec. Then I can share it with others at presentations, visits and the like. I really like the way Etoys-to-go can move from system to system. If this works even half as well, it will be big news. Caryl (a

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Raffael Reichelt wrote: 2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard Raffael; I just built a f14-Desktop 2nd USB using the same method and it boots fine on the MacBook Air. I then did "yum groupinstall sugar-desktop" and then "yum install sugar-emulator". (took 2 hrs because of the slowness of USB) Now

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Raffael; I just built a f14-Desktop 2nd USB using the same method and it boots fine on the MacBook Air. I then did "yum groupinstall sugar-desktop" and then "yum install sugar-emulator". (took 2 hrs because of the slowness of USB) Now I have a USB that will boot sugar or gnome via the gdm log

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Raffael Reichelt wrote: 2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed on the MacBook Air : In VirtualBox Make a "new" Virtualbox appliance where you specify the existing vmdk file on the 2nd USB as the Hard Disk. NOTE the same 4 GB USB; 2nd USB

Re: [IAEP] [soas] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed on the MacBook Air : In VirtualBox Make a "new" Virtualbox appliance where you specify the existing vmdk file on the 2nd USB as the Hard Disk. NOTE the same 4 GB USB; 2nd USB containing the students appliance files runs interchagably