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, 10:13, 3 November 2010Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS CD Boots fine on an Apple MacBook Air with an external hp-DVD/CD usb drive
==Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS CD Boots fine on an Apple MacBook Air with an external hp-DVD/CD usb drive.==
Hold "C" and tap power button keep holding the "C" key down until the blue fedora boot screen appears
Select Boot (Basic Video)-second line
boots to bar display Fedora 14; (Name_____); Choose password for new keyring; hit cancel 6 times.
F3 Ring appears
Use the usb to cat 5 Air dongle ( applesmc.78) as Network Manager does not recognize the Mac Air's wireless hardware.
f1 neighborhood will be full of xxxxxxxxxx@jabber.sugarlabs.org names
To fix this go to drop down / My settings /About me. change colors and restart. On restart the names will be correct.
ONLY IF you enter the key chain password you entered 1 time when you started sugar.
These are known bugs
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_Bugs#Current_Bugs
===A new Boot CD for Macs and computers that cannot boot from USB===
Boot helper CD for Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS:
<http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-4-boot-test.iso>
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Matt Wronkiewicz <matt@wronkiewicz.net> wrote:
>> > If anyone else is interested, I put together a boot helper for
>> > Mirabelle. Burned to a CD, it enabled booting a USB stick on my
>> > MacBook Pro. The stick was partitioned with the plain old MBR format
>> > and labeled "FEDORA". I also got both VMware Fusion and VirtualBox to
>> > boot the USB stick using this boot helper ISO. The soas-2-boot ISO
>> > sort of works with Mirabelle sticks, but they have different kernel
>> > versions so modules don't load, thus no networking. That is fixed in
>> > this build.
>> >
>> > <http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-3-boot-test.iso>
>> >
>> > Matt
>> >
>>
===Please Test these result on other MAC's and report here in wiki:===
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick_release_process#Macintosh_Testing
Hold "C" and tap power button keep holding the "C" key down until the blue fedora boot screen appears
Select Boot (Basic Video)-second line
boots to bar display Fedora 14; (Name_____); Choose password for new keyring; hit cancel 6 times.
F3 Ring appears
Use the usb to cat 5 Air dongle ( applesmc.78) as Network Manager does not recognize the Mac Air's wireless hardware.
f1 neighborhood will be full of xxxxxxxxxx@jabber.sugarlabs.org names
To fix this go to drop down / My settings /About me. change colors and restart. On restart the names will be correct.
ONLY IF you enter the key chain password you entered 1 time when you started sugar.
These are known bugs
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_Bugs#Current_Bugs
===A new Boot CD for Macs and computers that cannot boot from USB===
Boot helper CD for Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS:
<http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-4-boot-test.iso>
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Matt Wronkiewicz <matt@wronkiewicz.net> wrote:
>> > If anyone else is interested, I put together a boot helper for
>> > Mirabelle. Burned to a CD, it enabled booting a USB stick on my
>> > MacBook Pro. The stick was partitioned with the plain old MBR format
>> > and labeled "FEDORA". I also got both VMware Fusion and VirtualBox to
>> > boot the USB stick using this boot helper ISO. The soas-2-boot ISO
>> > sort of works with Mirabelle sticks, but they have different kernel
>> > versions so modules don't load, thus no networking. That is fixed in
>> > this build.
>> >
>> > <http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-3-boot-test.iso>
>> >
>> > Matt
>> >
>>
===Please Test these result on other MAC's and report here in wiki:===
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick_release_process#Macintosh_Testing