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

[Sameer Verma]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:40 AM,  <wolfgang at rohrmoser-engineering.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 13 September 2008, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> 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...
>
> no, it will not in any case! When the linux kernel is up it
> needs to detect the CD-drive and use a working driver.
> If you read the messages from beginning you may find the reason
> why it does not work on the DELL PC's. Maybe the commands
> lspci, dmesg will help too.
>
Hi Wolfgang,

I'll take a closer look at the messages and see if I can debug it. So,
its possible that the CD drivers are missing? I haven't looked at how
LiveBackupCD works, but can we grab drivers from one of the other Live
CD projects such as Ubuntu or Knoppix and make sure the "second" boot
works on as many cd drives as possible?

>>
>> 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.
>
> yes I know, but on a LiveCD RAM is also used for the filesystem.
> I didn't have the time to squeeze down the requirements for
> this release, but I will try to do so next time.

Excellent!

>
>> 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?
>
> Yes I tried, but the current sugar version changed to ignore
> any existing configuration and just enables all activities which are
> available.  Again, I hope this will be fixed next time.
>

Thanks!
>>
>> 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?
>>
> probably its  best to try all versions. None of these is perfect.

I'm downloading 080607 from the FTP site right now. I think it came
with 708 which should be fine.

> greetings
>
>   Wolfgang
>
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-- 
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/