Help with Boot Helpers?

[Gary C Martin]

On 30 Mar 2009, at 18:47, Caroline Meeks wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Gary C Martin  
> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2009, at 18:26, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>
> Last week Mel and I went to two schools in Boston to see how Sugar  
> on a Stick would fare in the wild.
>
> Notes are here:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GPA
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Shaw_Elementary_School
>
>
> The short summary is we think a wider range of "Boot Helpers" would  
> be very helpful.
>
> One thing that we specifically need help with is getting the boot- 
> helper CD updated from F9.9 to F11.
>
> Marco made the F9.9 version a few months ago:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
>
> Its under Gary's name, it was lost and Gary found it and uploaded  
> it, but Marco did the original work.
>
> And we recently decided to loose it again, as neither Simon or  
> myself could get it to work (at least on the kit we could test with  
> – did you have any luck at all with it?). It's still in my public  
> directory if needed, but not on the wiki anymore:
>
>        http://people.sugarlabs.org/garycmartin/boot.iso
>
> Yes it worked for me!  I just need a version with the most up to  
> date drivers as I'm hoping (based on some googling) that they will  
> help some of the issues we saw in our latest tests on the school  
> computer labs.
>
> Specifically I was definitely able to boot the Gardner school  
> computer lab computers with the CD and they did not boot without the  
> CD.

Oh my, OK! I've added it back to the wiki, you were just in time, I  
was going to delete it – no one had reported it as currently  
working! :-)

Regards,
--Gary

> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> Relevant tickets in dev.sugarlabs.org include 263, 265 for the CD  
> version
>
> More generally 579, 597 and 598 for the various different types of  
> boot helpers.
>
>
> Thanks to much work by many volunteers we are getting close! We have  
> enthusiastic teachers, especially at the Gardner, chomping at the  
> bit to try Sugar!  Please help if you can.
>
> Thanks!!!!
> Caroline
>
>
>
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