Hi Ian I want to demonstrate SOAS to teachers in Vanuatu. I would like to be more useful, but actually don't have the luxury of time to research these arcane technical issues in which I am not an expert. I just want to know, is there a version of SOAS that is properly tested and known to work? I have used SOAS many times before (years ago) without any problems. Which version is stable and will boot without errors and not hang on use?
Could be hardware? I will try with another flashdrive. Is 2GB of persistent storage too little/too much? David Leeming Solomon Islands -----Original Message----- From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Iain Brown Douglas Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2015 7:52 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: 'Sugar-dev Devel' Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS Hi David, From what you say, you already did a search for your error message. Does this Fedora forum answer cover your issue? http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=301945 I have been working with the script livecd-iso-to-disk and it works fine. I am working on SoaS Loader, here is a link to the work in progress. http://soas-loader.readthedocs.org/ Good luck, and thanks for putting time in trying to demonstrate SoaS :) Iain On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 10:51 +1100, David Leeming 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
