[Testing] Bug report - SoaS-Beta iso conversion

[Mikus Grinbergs]

> This page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_Ubuntu, refers to
> installing a package,

I've now looked at that page - still don't understand how it would 
help me.  I think what it describes is fashioning a system (on 
stick) on which the underlying operating system is Ubuntu, with 
Sugar as an installed Window Manager (with Activities) on top of that.

I don't want Ubuntu as the underlying operating system;  I want 
fedora-11 (rawhide) to be the underlying operating system when my 
XO-1 is booted.  So I don't think that webpage applies to what I 
want to do.  The principal advice that page gives is to use System 
-> Administration -> Create a USB startup disk -- but if script 
'livecd-iso-to-disk' works (see below), I see no need to do that.

[Before I ever started, I did make sure the packages mentioned on 
page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC 
were installed on the system I ran the conversion on.]


> apt-get --force-yes -y  install sugar-* squashfs-tools
> that may provide the missing functionality.

Thank you.  As Tabitha wrote, if there are packages that the 
'livecd-iso-to-xo' script needs, they should be documented.

After I installed the package 'squashfs-tools' on my Jaunty system, 
script 'livecd-iso-to-disk' ran to completion (though giving out all 
those error messages, plus an error pop-up window by Ubuntu saying 
"Unable to mount media").  Script 'livecd-iso-to-xo' still fails, 
the same way as Tabitha described it.

I *really* don't want to install 'sugar-*' on my Ubuntu system - so 
I shall not be trying that.

At least now I can boot the latest Soas2 20090503 from an USB stick. 
On my XO-1, its text characters need a magnifying glass to be seen. 
The first thing I had to do was to add '14' to the line "font = " in 
file .sugar/default/terminalrc, then go to Home -> My Settings -> 
Frame  and fool with the Activation Delay -- that offered me a 
(Sugar) restart, which I took.  The result is that the text 
characters in Terminal can now be seen (though they're still faint).

mikus