On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks... > > I finally have a couple of days with access to both PCs and my Mac, so now > is the time to try SoaS! I need to be able to test it on both the Windows > machines and the Mac. After about an hour of reading confusing, > conflicting, and convoluted info online, I am now thoroughly just that... > confused, conflicted and convoluted!
Use Live USB creator on your PC. > This a a cry for help! First some questions... and, please, if at all > possible I don't want to go into terminal. When I try to show this to > educators at SCaLE 10 X in January that will definitely turn them off. Prepare it before hand. > 1) Is there any possibility of using the same SoaS stick on both a PC and a > Mac with Virtual Box running (on the Mac)? Is there any reason to run > Virtual Box on a PC to run SoaS? Would this be a way to get the same usb > stick to work on both? If you boot the PC/Mac off a USB key you should be able to use one key for both. > 2) Some folks have reported being able to get SoaS to run on a Mac with > persistent storage. Exactly how, in simple terms did they do this? Virtual > Box I assume? But, maybe I am mistaken. Using a USB key with the LiveUSB creator you should be able to use persistent storage. > 3) When I set up the Live USB creator parameters, what do you recommend for > persistent storage? I am using a 4 GB stick. 4Gb is reasonable. > 4) Is there an easy way to add Activities to the SoaS build? If so, does > this need to be done before the stick is created or can they be added later? After, with persistent storage. > I'm sure this will be enough to get me started, but there will undoubtedly > be other questions as I go along. Peter BTW I suggest you send emails like this just to the SoaS lists, there's no need to send it everywhere. _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas