Soas v4 Soas Boots on Mac Air
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