[LB-XO-LiveCD] LiveCD 080902 is working!

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Fri Sep 12 19:15:01 EDT 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> I'm having trouble booting from this. I get
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> ERROR: no backup media found, stopped ...
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> followed by a busybox prompt.
>
> This is on a real PC and not under any VM.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Sameer
>
>

I tried again with another CD-R. This time it worked on one machine
(my Thinkpad) but still failed on the Dell PCs. I'm not sure if this
is media related. If it boots, then it should be able to boot all the
way...

Couple of observations:

1) The >=1GB RAM requirement is steep, considering the XO has only
256. Many of the folks who I'd like to give this to (school teachers)
do not have computers with >=1GB RAM.
2) The activity circle loads with all the activities on the CD. This
makes the circle really crowded. Maybe select a few key ones and start
with that?

I'm in Jamaica, where we are planning a workshop of sorts on Tuesday
of next week. We'll have a couple of XOs with build 711, so maybe i'll
stick to a live CD with the older look and feel. Anyone know which was
the last live CD version with a stable build?

Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/


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