Sugar on a Stick/Linux/Installation

These are the steps for installing Sugar on a Stick on a USB/SD device.

This page is transcluded to various installation instruction pages.  Download the latest Sugar on a Stick .iso file.   Prepare: (with root user permissions at a terminal or console command line)  Create a mount point directory: mkdir /run/soas  Mount the .iso file to make it accessible as a disk: mount /path/to/downloaded.iso /run/soas/
 * (Where /path/to/downloaded.iso is the filesystem path, or fully specified name, of the downloaded .iso file.)
 * This is the source for the installation, and must remain mounted until the installation is complete.

  Insert a USB stick of 2 GB or greater capacity into your computer.  Use the command df -Th or blkid to get the USB device node name.

 Unmount the USB device filesystem: umount /run/media/MyAccount/MyUSBdiscMountPoint
 * (The /run/media/MyAccount/ path is the new, Fedora 17 standard mount point. Other operating systems may use /media/MyMountPoint.) 

 (You should have the isomd5sum package installed so that the following installation script can verify the download.) </ul>  Load: Execute the following installation command, as the root user, in one command line with many options: <div style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 1.6em; border: 1px dashed #2F6FAB; padding: 1em; background-color: #FBFBFB; font-family: Courier;">/run/soas/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 800 --unencrypted-home /path/to/downloaded.iso /dev/sd?1
 * The '?' in the final parameter represents the target USB device scsi drive node, such as sdb1 or sdc1, etc., and /path/to/downloaded.iso is the location and name of the .iso file.
 * The operating system will occupy ~670 MB, and the overlay and home size arguments, 500 and 800, were selected to fit in a 2 GB device. These may be adjusted depending on your preferences and device capacity (see LiveOS image). SoaS 10 can be squeezed into a 1 GB device with 160 and 170. On a 4 GB device, one might use 1000 and 1600 for the size arguments.

</li>  Boot: Insert the USB stick into a bootable USB port on your computer. Set the option to "boot from USB" in your computer's <abbr title="Basic Input/Output System">BIOS setup, and then start up the computer. </li></ol>


 * To create more Sugar Sticks on other 1 GB or greater USB or SD devices, while running Sugar on a Stick, in the Terminal Activity, execute this command as the root user: <div style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 0em; border: 1px dashed #2F6FAB; padding: 1em; background-color: #FBFBFB; font-family: Courier;">/run/initramfs/live/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 160 --home-size-mb 170 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /run/initramfs/livedev /dev/sd?1
 * Replace /dev/sd?1 with a new device node for the second USB/SD device that you want to load with Sugar on a Stick.