Re: [orca-list] new Versions of Sonar are out

[Jonathan Nadeau <j nadeau charter net>]

okay is this a windows program? if so i'll try and get windows in a vm
to see if i have any trouble. Thanks for your input.


On 05/01/2015 10:01 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
> Hey Jonathan,
> Yumi is like the Universal USB installer, except that you can have multiple 
> operating systems on it, and you can remove them easily from the stick too.
> But if it is an ISO that can just be burned to a DVD or CD, then it will 
> work on Umi.
> I believe that it uses GRUB to give the user a boot menu.
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jonathan Nadeau" <j nadeau charter net>
> To: "Glenn / Lenny" <GlennErvin cableone net>; <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] new Versions of Sonar are out
>
>
> Ah okay so you have two other operating systems on the stick? or your
> saying that you have run these others on the same stick? With Sonar it
> is a hybrid iso image which means that if you were already running linux
> you could use the dd command to copy the Sonar image over and it would
> boot off of the usb stick. i'm wondering if the program you are using is
> adding additional software to make the iso bootable and that is
> conflicting. i'm not sure it's just a guess. I've booted into Sonar off
> of my usb stick on 4 different computers.
>
>    On 05/01/2015 08:57 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
> > I am using Yumi, the latest version, and putting it on USB.
> > I have the latest Vinux and an XP-like copy of Ubuntu on the stick as 
> > well,
> > and they boot up okay.
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jonathan Nadeau" <j nadeau charter net>
> > To: "Glenn / Lenny" <GlennErvin cableone net>; <orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 7:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] new Versions of Sonar are out
> >
> >
> > hey Glen,
> >
> > i'm sorry it didn't work out for you. maybe you could try the Sonar mate
> > version and see if that works. Are you  burning DVd's or installing from
> > a usb stick?
> >
> >
> > On 05/01/2015 08:36 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I downloaded the 686 again and again, it will not boot.
> > > Although I cannot see the screen well enough to read anything, no matter
> > > how
> > > big it is, I can tell that it is still at the black screen.
> > > That is the way it was when it did not boot before, and my son said that
> > > it
> > > just had a blinking cursor.
> > > But the control keystrokes did not work either.
> > > Other distros do boot on this system, so I have to conclude that it is a
> > > limitation with Sonar.
> > > I was hoping it would work.
> > > Glenn
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Jonathan Nadeau" <j nadeau charter net>
> > > To: "Glenn / Lenny" <GlennErvin cableone net>; <orca-list gnome org>
> > > Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 2:40 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [orca-list] new Versions of Sonar are out
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > yeah you can use the i686 iso. one thing you can try is maybe for some
> > > reason your system is either coming up muted or the volume is very low.
> > > So what you can do is press control and the letter m to unmute or press
> > > control and the up arrow to turn the volume up.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 05/01/2015 01:40 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have downloaded both the 32 bit and the 64 bit, of the recently 
> > > > offered
> > > > Sonar, and neither wants to boot on my system.
> > > > I have an Acer  laptop with an Intel dual core 1.7 GHZ with 2GB of RAM.
> > > > The 32-bit version reads as i686, while the 64-bit reads as X86.
> > > > The laptop normally boots to Vista, but I installed a 32-bit Vista on 
> > > > it,
> > > > it
> > > > came with Vista, but it was a corrupt install, and the recovery 
> > > > partition
> > > > did not exist any more, and the product key was worn off, and that is 
> > > > why
> > > > I
> > > > acquired it.
> > > > So I bought a 32-bit Vista for it, because it was cheap, and therefore, 
> > > > I
> > > > don't know if it originally had a 64-bit installed.
> > > > But I would think that the 32-bit i686 version would work.
> > > > Any thoughts?
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > Glenn
> > > > Known  as: Glenn, Lenny, or N0YJV
> > > >
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