Macintosh/Live CD

Restart, Play. Restart, Mac.
Get a hands on experience with Sugar by booting from a CD. Restart and return to your Mac, completely unchanged. This is the easiest way to get a Taste of Sugar on a Mac.

To Get Started
 * Download Sugar on a Stick (Choose the 64-bit version, if possible, for increased compatibility.)


 * Linux for PowerPC architecture
 * Fedora for PowerPC & Ubuntu/PPC processor (iBooks and other PowerPC Macs)

Click to discover the processor at the heart of your Mac.

Verify the file was downloaded properly by calculating its SHA-1 checksum For protection against tampering and transmission errors, always compare the checksum of each download.

To calculate a file's SHA-1 checksum

Open the Terminal Utility and type into the Terminal Window. Press the return key to run the command. Replace mySugarFlavor with the name of the file you downloaded.
 * Mac OS version ≥10.6
 * Mac OS version ≤10.5
 * Compare the result to the official SHA-1 checksum stored at Sugar Labs.

To burn onto CD The CD created is bootable in most PCs including Intel Mac. Please burn many copies and share them freely.
 * Open the Disk Utility. Drag the downloaded .iso file to the bottom of the list.
 * Select your flavor .iso in the list, then press the Burn button.
 * Insert a blank CD disc when prompted.
 * Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X

To try a Taste of Sugar
 * Insert the CD you burned.
 * Press the Power Button on the Intel Mac. If a dialog box appears, press the Restart Button.
 * During the startup sound, press and hold the letter C. If the apple logo appears, Sugar is not booting. Restart and try again.
 * the C key must be pressed during the startup sound and you must continue to hold it down.
 * you may release the c key once the Blue Boot Screen Welcome to Fedora-.......appears
 * Hit  and add this to the line of commands at the bottom: nomodeset xdriver=vesa 
 * Hit  and cd will boot after several messages
 * This works with


 * 1)  SoaS v4 Mango Lassi  Soas v4 Soas Boots on Mac Air
 * 2) SoaS v3 Mirabelle

A Taste of Sugar is a safe read-only experience that doesn't write or remember anything. Unfortunately, this means the Journal is not saved. Nothing is saved. All learner progress is lost when the machine reboots. A Taste of Sugar is only a demonstration and is not intended to be used on a recurring basis. See Sugar in a Window or  Sugar on Linux to install Sugar for a learner.