On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:30:06PM -0800, Sébastien Labbé wrote: > Salut Thierry Monteil, > > This is really nice! I just tested it. Works on linux. But, I can't make a > mac os x to boot on the usb key...
Salut! this is due to the fact that Mac can only understand GUID partition tables, and the USB key has a traditional MBR partition table. I don't know if it is worth changing this or if it will cause problem to some old PC BIOSes. That said, following Andrea Lazzarotto's advice, you can boot on a Mac using a CD bootloader. You can find a working CD image on the download page at http://www.lirmm.fr/~monteil/hebergement/sagedebianlive/plopkexec.iso I added an explanation to the install doc: http://sagedebianlive.metelu.net/INSTALL.html#os-x By the way, i started a page about various Sage Live in the wiki at http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageLiveUSB as suggested at the end of the "Bobo-Dioulasso debriefing" thread and trac ticket #13966. Ciao, Thierry > Sébastien > > On Monday, January 7, 2013 6:09:12 PM UTC+1, Thierry (sage-googlesucks@xxx) > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > here is a link to the self-replicating live USB we discussed about in the > > Bobo > > 2012 sage days thread. > > > > http://sagedebianlive.metelu.net/ > > > > The idea started during the preparatory sage days in november 2011 in Bobo > > Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) when the best existing solution to have sage > > running > > on the participant's machines (running windows) turned out to be the Puppy > > live > > CD as explained in http://wiki.sagemath.org/days34.5 . > > > > Hence i started to work on an easy-to-use self-replicating feature to this > > live > > CD, so that sage could be spread without internet connection among > > non-linux > > users, this let me discover Puppy Linux which is quite fun to use and has > > very > > interesting features, but also some drawbacks: > > > > - the creation of a new custom liveCD is done by remastering an existing > > Puppy > > squashfs : the build proces is not transparent nor reproductible, and > > needs > > human ressource at each update (either of Puppy or Sage), this might be > > the > > reason why there was no release between sage 4.7.1 and sage 5.3. > > > > - dependance on a distribution (LUPQ Puppy Quickset) wich is a mix of > > Puppy > > and Ubuntu, and was not updated since 2010 (2.6.32 kernel) > > http://shino.pos.to/linux/lupq/ > > http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60199&start=105 > > > > - being small enough to stay in a CD-ROM, it is not adapted to an offline > > use > > (e.g. the "man" command opens a web-browser to a distant manpage). > > > > Therefore i tried to use some good ideas of Puppy (like having a language > > switcher), but base the work on a solid distribution (Debian), having the > > following additional features in mind : > > - minimal maintenance : > > -- at each build, you get updated softwares with no additional work > > -- the build can be run at each sage version automatically > > - self-contained and self replicating without the need of an internet > > connection. > > - ony write code what is missing between sage and debian-live > > > > All kind of remarks are welcome. > > > > Ciao, > > Thierry > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
