On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi... > > I am following the progress of this with great interest, and as soon as I > finish the work I promised to do on the Help Activity/Users Manual refresh, > I will have a chance to try it. I do have a few questions that will help me > get started. > > 1) Which Mac OS X are you running?
It should work with all Intel based Macs > 2) Has this been tested on a MacBook? See above :-) > 3) Can I create the persistent usb on my MacBook using the instructions I > found in item 4 on this page? You can create persistent images with overlays (you always have been able to). There are some issues with them and I've been working with upstream to have a properly engineered means of doing this. There is MAJOR work going on within the Fedora installed (anaconda/liveinst) to allow this to happen. With luck we should see the first fruits of this start to appear in the SoaSv7 timeframe. This has been a long time coming, I'm been pushing for this for nearly 2 years! > http://www.webupd8.org/2009/04/4-ways-to-create-bootable-live-usb.html > > If this works, it is really good news! I would love to be able to show it > at SCaLE 10X in Los Angeles on Jan 20-22. Should I put in a proposal for a > presentation or is it not ready for the "big time" yet? Sure, it should work fine. SoaSv6 is looking to be a very good release fixing a lot of outstanding issues we've had around for quite some time. Peter > Better still.... would someone from Sugar Labs like to do a presentation at > SCaLE? > > I'm looking forward to hearing answers! > > Caryl > > ________________________________ > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:32:57 -0700 > From: satel...@bendbroadband.com > To: i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > CC: test...@lists.laptop.org; s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; > sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: [SoaS] MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB ( boots > directly from USB ) > > We now have a persistent EFI boot USB for Macs... > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB > > works with f16 RC4 x86-64 Soas.iso > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.RC4/Live/x86_64/Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso > > Use: livecd-iso-to-disk see first link for details. > > Tom Gilliard/satellit_ > > > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list > s...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel