Forwarding to SoaS list On Tuesday, July 21, 2015, David Leeming <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > > > I have familiarity with Sugar since working with OLPC from 2008, but I > haven’t been active in these communities for some time. I’m just refreshing > myself on current status of Sugar with a view to introducing teachers to it > in a forthcoming workshop in Vanuatu. We’ll be using tablets as well as PCs > so I have familiarised myself with Sugarizer. I then intended to introduce > the wider world of Sugar conveniently with SOAS. > > > > So I have downloaded both the 32-bit and 64-bit iso files and verified > their hashes. I also download the latest version of USB Live Installer. I > formatted a fairly new 16GB USB with FAT32 and installed SOAS on it leaving > 2000Mb of persistent memory. The USB stick is a “SanDisk Cruzer Facet 16GB”. > > > > Immediately I run into problems. When booting (on a fairly recent Toshiba > i7 laptop) it stops with “vesamenu.c32 not a com32r image”. On pressing Tab > key I do not see “Live” as an option, but it does start with the option > linux0. Sugar boots and I can use it for a few minutes, I tried Speak and > Turtle Art for instance, but within a short time it hangs and needs a hard > boot. > > > > I repeated the whole process with the 32-bit (verified) iso file and same > problem. I’ll give this problem only a few hours as that is all I have. But > I would like to know what are the requirements for a reliable repeatable > experience with SOAS, as it says on the website, to get Sugar into Vanuatu > schools. > > > > > > > > > > > > *David Leeming* > > Solomon Islands > > >
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