Hello, Caroline,
I've considerable information to report re: CD's booting SoaS on USB.
First, I admit to burning my boot CD wrong; creating the right kind of (.iso)
CD makes the process work fine for me. My fairly current desktop system worked
fine this way, as well as did an IBM ThinkPad notebook of Pentium II vintage.
(I'm by and large a Windows person; no experience with Macs at all.)
I did experience an overwhelming problem with the ThinkPad, however; it took a
good 20 minutes or more for it to get from opening blue screen to the opening
screen of my activity. It even took more than a minute to change to my initial
activity screen from its full-screen icon display. And this machine has 1GB of
memory. This admittedly anecdotal evidence leads me to question the total
feasibility of running SoaS on vintage equipment. Have you or others had
similar experience?
I was prepared for *some* slowdown, as my XO-1 natively runs noticeably faster
than the XO-1 under SoaS Strawberry. The IBM ThinkPad however, is a *complete*
no-go.
I've another Pentium I/II vintage laptop. It, like my IBM, has only a single
USB port - showing that they are from the first generation of USB usage.
However, this Hitachi laptop cannot boot from CD. This reminded me that USB
ports and bootable CD's came in at about the same time, and do not predate by
far bootable USB drives. IOW, bootable CD's are of limited utility for SoaS.
However, bootable (3.5") *floppies* would be altogether a different matter.
Floppies have been bootable forever, and all vintage machines have floppy
drives - including both my Pentium I/II laptops. A floppy/USB combo, for
laptops with a USB port, would at least theoretically render all such machines
SoaS-capable. The combo would also work fine for older desktops as long as you
could find a USB card for them.
Bottom line: I'd really look forward to the availability of the boot floppy
that's being completed by one of our list-members. If you had older desktops or
laptops, you could easily configure them to boot first from the A: drive,
having inserted the floppy disk and perhaps black-plastic-electrical-taped over
the A: drive opening (?!).
But, to restate my question (and fear): who has had bad/good experience with
SoaS in older computers?
Art Hunkins
----- Original Message -----
From: Caroline Meeks
To: Art Hunkins
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Question #81566]: Can't boot MacBooks at
GPAfrom CD + USB
Hi,
How are things going getting your computers to boot? Do you get this
consistently or is it intermittent? I've seen it intermittently especially if I
use restart not shutdown. If I power down its more likely to take.
Thanks
Caroline
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Art Hunkins <abhun...@uncg.edu> wrote:
FWIW, on a WinXP system of mine, a helper CD I made and booted from,
completely ignored my SoaS and booted into Windows.
Not very encouraging. I'm finding that quite a few systems I have around
here don't have a USB boot option. I've a feeling that most systems more than 4
years old or so fit into this category.
Art Hunkins
----- Original Message -----
From: Caroline Meeks
To: Sugar Devel ; iaep
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 9:09 PM
Subject: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Question #81566]: Can't boot MacBooks at
GPAfrom CD + USB
Has anyone seen a "Not Responding" error when booting with a CD helper?
Also, I'm trying out the LaunchPad Questions functionality to see if this
could be a front door where people put in various issues then we triage them to
bugs/FAQs etc.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Caroline <question81...@answers.launchpad.net>
Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Subject: [Question #81566]: Can't boot MacBooks at GPA from CD + USB
To: cme...@sugarlabs.org
New question #81566 on Sugar on a Stick:
https://answers.launchpad.net/soas/+question/81566
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir1A3FH08kQ
I've been able to boot with a CD and USB other macbooks, such as those at
LGF. I've never seen this error before.
Anurag is going to try a Sugar and Fedora CD tomorrow.
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