Testing/Reports/Sugar on a Stick
Testing Results
- This page reports on testing of recent Soas and Fedora Stage ; Nightly Composes and Remixes
SoaS v6 Pineapple
- Final Version released 11/09/2011
- Direct Download: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads
About my computer
- Build: Sugar on a Stick 6 (Pineapple)
- Fedora Release 16 (Verne)
- Sugar:0.94.2
Soas-Booting_EFI_USB for MacBook Pro
- click this link ^
SoaS v5 Coconut
- Final release10/09/2011
About my Computer
- Sugar on a Stick 5 (Coconut)
- Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
- Sugar: 0.92.4
Activities
- Software List (All favorites)
Write 76 etoys 116 record 93 chat 71 Turtle Art 114 physics 8 terminal 34 pippy 40 calculate 37 turtle art 114 Speak 29 memorize 36 pippy 41 clock 6 log 24 abacus 19 IRC 10 surf 115
- Control Panel / Network Application works
- liveinst installs to USB correctly (4 GB USB device: custom / ext4 no swap )
- F16 liveusb-creator (GUI) works fine to make persistent 2GB USB device from .iso
Bugs
- SoaS v5 Coconut Beta only connects to jabber if using wired connection on boot
MacBook Pro i7 CD Boot
- connect to wired network
- Insert CD
- Hold down option key until see CD "Windows"
- Select it.
- Sugar plymouth screen
- (Name:_______)
- color
- F3 Ring
- F1 Network Neighborhood -
- works if wired connection on startup - sees jabber avitars
- no wireless ap points show; no jabber avitars show
- Sugar on a Stick 5-coconut
- Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
- 0.92.4
MacBook Persistent SoaS v5 and SoaS v6 EFI Boot USB
- Boots directly from the USB device NEW
- F15 Downlink: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso
- F16 Downlink: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.RC4/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso
- Latest F16-RC4 and RC5 have the updated kernel and boot an EFI USB device directly on a MacBookPro i7 (11/03/2011)
- I just successfully made a f16 RC4 EFI Boot USB in VirtualBox on My Macbook Pro i7......nice ; used x86-64 live Desktop and liveinst then installed additions (for USB Access)
- Download of Live-desktop for Virtualbox:http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.RC4/Live/x86_64/Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso
- VirtualBox Downloads: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html including additions
- My Smolt Mac Profile:http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_3947102b-ca8d-49f6-9a2d-d1ab91b74448
- Chat works just had chat with mulawa1 on USB on Mac
- Note: EFI USB does NOT boot on MacBook Air. trying to figure out why
Is that an original MacBook Air? According to this page it does not boot EFI in 64 bits: Bert:
- List of Macs that boot in EFI: http://www.everymac.com/mac-answers/snow-leopard-mac-os-x-faq/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-64-bit-macs-64-bit-efi-boot-in-64-bit-mode.html
- f16 Common Bugs:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#Incorrect_partition_type_assigned_to_.2Fboot_partition_on_GPT-labelled_disks
- Boot Flag: http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/12/02/fedora-mac-and-efi/ older info to look at
- Possible Fix: tested with grub2-efi, and then I can boot Air with xdriver=vesa nomodeset
- Fix for EFI in v6? :::http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-October/104146.html
- Kernel upgrade to fix this: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/3.1.0/7.fc16/x86_64/kernel-3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64.rpm is in RC4
- Look at Further adventures in EFI booting: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html
- WORKS WITH SoaS v5 Coconut and SoaS v6 Pineapple
- Only works with wired cat5 connection (May work with Wireless-not tested)
<===click on image to enlarge- To Boot Hold "Option" Key when starting Mac. Hold key until EFI USB Icon Appears then select it right arrow ===> (EFI)
- KEY: (x)= device name
- Use the
sudo blkidcommand in a terminal to see the USB and other device names for discs attached to the system.- ie: /dev/sdb; /dev/sdc; /dev/sdd.... IMPORTANT very dangerous if you use the wrong one
Run "yum install livecd-tools" so it installs all the required
dependencies and then use livecd-iso-to-disk
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Boots:MacBook-Proi7
-EFI-Boot-USB
hold option key on power up
select --> EFI Boot
* Has Persistence
*2 GB Firefly USB
:formatted in F16 diskutility
fat /dev/sdb
fat /dev/sdb1
* (Built in F16 gnome3-shell 3.2.1 on Acer Aspire One N450)
* terminal:
----------substitute the f16 SoaS,iso for v6-------------
sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format --efi --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 175 --delete-home --unencrypted-home Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso /dev/sd(x) (x)=device name
Verifying image...
/home/(user)/Downloads/Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso: 566e78411306dc76f8608a8958c0f8fa
Fragment sums: 34bba2e2de25169fa69998bdffed8a3cebfe366f5e82264575b397bcb622
Fragment count: 20
Press [Esc] to abort check.
Checking: 100.0%
The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
It is OK to use this media.
WARNING: THIS WILL DESTROY ANY DATA ON /dev/sdb!!!
Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort
wipefs: WARNING: /dev/sdb: appears to contain 'dos' partition table
Waiting for devices to settle...
mkdosfs 3.0.11 (24 Dec 2010)
Copying live image to target device.
squashfs.img
417943552 100% 7.55MB/s 0:00:52 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
sent 417994645 bytes received 31 bytes 7812984.60 bytes/sec
total size is 417943552 speedup is 1.00
osmin.img
8192 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
sent 8265 bytes received 31 bytes 16592.00 bytes/sec
total size is 8192 speedup is 0.99
Updating boot config file
Initializing persistent overlay file
300+0 records in
300+0 records out
314572800 bytes (315 MB) copied, 32.5186 s, 9.7 MB/s
Initializing persistent /home
175+0 records in
175+0 records out
183500800 bytes (184 MB) copied, 23.6238 s, 7.8 MB/s
Formatting unencrypted /home
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
44880 inodes, 179200 blocks
8960 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Maximum filesystem blocks=67371008
22 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
2040 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (4096 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 35 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
Installing boot loader
Target device is now set up with a Live image!
Control-panel
Sugar on a Stick 6 (Pineapple) Fedora release 16 (Verne) 0.94.1 Firmware: MBP81.88Z.0047.B1E.1109091244 Wireless Firmware: N/A
activities
> = Updates pippy 43 moon 13 log 26 visual match 30 speak 34 typing turtle 28 ruler 13 > 28 turtle art 120 > 122 jukebox 23 irc 10 chat 73 maze 14 etoys 116 abacus 26 > 28 write 77 clock 7 record 93 calculate 38 image viewer 19 physics 9 memorize 39 terminal 35 surf 115
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SoaS v5 Coconut prebuilt VirtualBox Appliance
- Sugar_Creation_Kit#Sugar_on_a_Stick-V5-Coconut
- Just import 2 files from above link ^
dd writable 2GB USB Soas-v5-Coconut-USB .img
- built with liveusb-creator in F16 with persistence file from
- USB 2 GB Firefly
- reduced to 1.66 GiB with gparted*
- Never started so has original Name___; Color___==> startup
Write to a 2 GB (1.95 GiB) USB device
dd if=/dev/sd(x) of=Soas_Coconuts.img bs=2M 956+0 records in 956+0 records out 2004877312 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 93.2584 s, 21.5 MB/s
- NOTE dd may complain that it is unable to write to your USB device "No space left on device."
- Disregard as it will work (this is due to gparted resizing)
Write to a Smaller 2 GB (1.87GiB) USB device
dd if=Soas_Coconuts.img of=/dev/sdg bs=2M dd: writing `/dev/sdg': No space left on device 956+0 records in 955+0 records out 2003828736 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 316.111 s, 6.3 MB/s
dd writable 1 GB EFI Boot (MAC) USB Soas-v5-Coconut-USB .img
- Download: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SoaS-15-1-EFI.img
- persistent; fits in a 1 GB USB
- How to build: Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB
- NOTE DO NOT USE THIS .img file with image-writer-mac
- This is a dd created .img from a working USB
Write to a 1 GB USB device
sudo su Password dd if=SoaS-15-1-EFI.img of=/dev/sd(x) bs=2M 489+1 records in 489+1 records out 1026555904 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 216.577 s, 4.7 MB/s
SoaS v6 Desktop EFI USB device Builder prebuilt VirtualBox Appliance
- http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser.ovf
- http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser-disk1.vmdk
- builds EFI 2GB USB devices that boot MacBook Pro i7 (8.1 Intel)
- Just import 2 files from above link ^
- root=sugarroot user=sugar pswd=sugaruser
- Allows building of EFI Boot USB devices (self contained)
- F16-Desktop x86-64 Virtual Machine
- requires a x86_64 computer
- IMPORTANT: There is NO WIRELESS (wired works) or AUDIO available when booted from this EFI Boot USB
- Contains RC4 F15 and F16 x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso files in the Download directory
- Script in Desktop to run in terminal
- How to use the VM to create an EFI boot USB
Start Virtual Appliance start Terminal (Applications/system tools/terminal) In terminal: cd Downloads Insert a 2 GB or larger USB type "mount" to get USB device name ie: /dev/sdb; /dev/sdc/; etc Be certain of this to get this wrong is dangerous. minimize start Applications/Accessories/gedit In Gedit Open /Desktop/livecd-iso-to-disk.txt edit command line to show correct USB device name. copy corrected command line Paste into terminal
- builds EFI 2GB USB devices that boot MacBook Pro i7 (8.1 Intel)
- THIS IS A DANGEROUS OPERATION. BE CERTAIN THE USB DEVICE NAME IS CORRECT
root=sugarroot user=sugar pswd=sugaruser
- Please Test all suggestions on comments are welcome Please edit wiki.
f16-SoaS boot USB for XO-1
- (graphical) liveusb-creator in f16 gnome3-shell- with f16 i686-Live.iso selected
- boots G1G1 XO-1 as a live USB
- I formatted the USB first in f16 gnome3-shell disk utility as Master Boot Record and fat partition with LIVE label
- Then ran liveusb-creator (graphical)
- USB is quite slow but it does boot from USB
- (USB in right bottom slot when powered on)
- connects to WEP Access Point and Updates correctly
liveusb-creator record
Fedora-16-i686-Live-SoaS.iso selected Warning: The Master Boot Record on your device does not match your system's syslinux MBR. If you have trouble booting this stick, try running the liveusb-creator with the --reset-mbr option. Verifying filesystem... Verifying ISO MD5 checksum ISO MD5 checksum passed Extracting live image to USB device... Wrote to device at 6 MB/sec Creating 1687MB persistent overlay Setting up OLPC boot file... Installing bootloader... Marked /dev/sdb1 as bootable Unmounting /media/LIVE Complete! (0:07:23)
About my computer
- Build: Sugar on a Stick 6 (Pineapple)
- Fedora Release 16 (Verne)
- Sugar:0.94.2
- Firmware:Q2E46
- Wireless firmware:9.34.3 p23
- (Connects via jabber.sugarlabs.org to a XO-1.5 running os874 sugar 0.92.2)
Fedora SoaS Spin
- http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
- https://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads
- Latest Nightly Spins: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?method=createLiveCD&owner=kevin&state=all&view=tree&order=-id
- Current Download Page
Nightly live composes (Fedora 16 rawhide Branched)
- Note all nightly compose are ephemeral builds for testing and are erased when the next build happens.
- Current status of All createLiveCD Tasks in Koji
- see latest builds and their status
- Retrieve recent older Nightly Composes
- All Composes: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?state=all&view=flat&method=createLiveCD&order=-id
Fedora-16-Nightly-20111016.20-i686-Live-soas
create USB with livecd-iso-to-disk script
- 2GB firefly USB formatted fat 16 with boot flag
# ./livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 175 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /home/robert/Desktop/Fedora-16-Nightly-20111016.20-i686-Live-soas.iso /dev/sdg1 Verifying image... ./livecd-iso-to-disk.sh: line 385: checkisomd5: command not found Are you SURE you want to continue? Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort Copying live image to USB stick Updating boot config file Initializing persistent overlay file 300+0 records in 300+0 records out 314572800 bytes (315 MB) copied, 41.3084 s, 7.6 MB/s Initializing persistent /home 175+0 records in 175+0 records out 183500800 bytes (184 MB) copied, 26.235 s, 7.0 MB/s Formatting unencrypted /home mke2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 44880 inodes, 179200 blocks 8960 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Maximum filesystem blocks=67371008 22 block groups 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 2040 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729 Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (4096 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 33 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. tune2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) Setting maximal mount count to -1 Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds Installing boot loader USB stick set up as live image!
- Boots Fine
Install to HD (liveinst)
F16 disk utility
format HD format partion ext4
- Discovered that using gparted to format the HD partition on Ubuntu causes liveinst failure as it cannot see the 1 MiB first partition.
- NOR can the installer
liveinst
Boot Live SoaS CD terminal: liveinst custom ext4 / [format] (not allowed to use existing ext4 fs) installing bootloader
- Works Great. boots to firstboot....gdm login
- F1 Network neigborhood shows jabber avitars
Boots on MacBook Pro i7
CD option key ==> windows has efi folder but does not show up on Mac
Fedora-16-Nightly-20111006.08-i686-Live-soas
- boots well-(plymouth circle animation)
name____ color f3 ring
- f1 network neighborhood works on Jabber with wired connection
My Settings
About My Computer
Sugar on a Stick 6 (Pineapple)
Fedora release 16 (Verne)
0.94.0
Applications
# = not selected as favorite > = updates ......... etoys 116 ruler 12 # > 13 calculate 37 turtle art 114 > 117 physics 8 > 9 log 24 > 26 memorize 37 > 39 pippy 41 >42 speak 32 > 34 clock 6 > 7 irc 10 record 93 write 76 > 77 chat 71 terminal 35 abacus 19 > 24 surf 115 fails to start ImportError: cannot import name AddressEntry
Fedora-16-Nightly-20110906.17-i686-Live-soas
- boots well-(plymouth circle animation)
name____ color f3 ring
- f1 network neighborhood works on Jabber with wired connection
My Settings
About My Computer
Sugar on a Stick 6
Fedora release 16 (Rawhide) => should say ... Verne (Branched)
0.93.2
Network does not start
Software Update
(Says Software is Up to Date if wired Network is not connected)
Install to HD
- Works fine /ext4 to USB
Applications
* surf 115 "None failed to start" cannot import name AddressEntry (webtoolbar) icon stays pulsing in top bar pippy 40 works but ImportError: cannot import name physics calculate 37 speak 29 physics 8 log 24 terminal 33 clock 6 icon stays pulsing in top bar irc 10 connect on port 8001- #sugar #sugar-es chat 70 goes on line joins from f1
etoys 116 non=standard sugar interface does not color icon on f3 ring turtle art 113 record 93 no audio icon stays pulsing in top bar memorize 36 goes on line joins from f1 write 72 abacus 19