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To those entering alternate installations and experimental images: please try to organize and integrate the page for the new reader.

Updating zyx-liveinstaller

rpm -Uvh \http://filteredperception.org/downloads/zyx-liveinstaller/zyx-liveinstaller-0.1.16-1.noarch.rpm

Sugar on a Stick in VM Player with persistence

Copy-paste the VMware Player hard disk files to a 2 GB USB stick.
Advantages;
Portable (Student can take home and run on home Computer)
Run it on different Platforms Windows. Mac, linux
Disadvanage
runs about 10x slower on a USB stick


Operating System Notes

Archive of old information

Windows XP SP2

Loads and runs VMware virtual machine in Windows XP SP2 {tested on a Dell 2350 Tower and EeePC1000 }

Appliance (packaged virtual machine) runs from USB Stick & Hard Disk on VMPlayer or VMWorkstation

Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04

VMware Workstation 6.5.2 can make virtual machine image files in Ubuntu. VMware Player will run these virtual appliances. The appliance can be distributed by copying to a DVD or a 4-GiB SD or USB drive or by downloading prebuilt VMPlayer Appliances from Sugar Labs [[1]] or other server.

For VMWorkstation HD Installs in Ubuntu

Fedora 12

Soas-v2-blueberry.iso Install using zyx-liveinstaller

Download link: [4]

  1. Method used for this Install to VMware 4GB IDE(custom)Hard disk /(SCSI will not work): 
* zyx-liveinstaller

*4GB unallocated
*Make new partition (All of it;that just creates the partition scheme, you can create the partitions afterwards)

=====Create new Partitions=====: 

* 200 MiB  ext2 for /boot
* 2.93 GiB ext4 for /
* 902 Mib  linux-swap 
* Edit-Apply all Operations

Also will write to USB/SD

Fedora12-EDU Spin

http://spins.fedoraproject.org/edu/#downloads http://spins.fedoraproject.org/edu/

Fedora 11

VMware Player will not load in Fedora 11 beta or Fedora Preview loaded with shell command; One gets "Unable to modify kernel" error and quits.

Fedora 10

openSUSE

(See: nubae and cyberorg on #irc #sugar #opensuse-edu for details.)

SUSE is building and hosting appliances at these sites for downloading.

Live CD
 *(x)be careful to use correct device or you can wipe your hard disk!
===========unformatted 2GB USB==================
dd if=openSUSE-Sugar.i686-11.2.0-Build2.1.iso of=/dev/sd(x) bs=4M
151+1 records in
151+1 records out
636485632 bytes (636 MB) copied, 86.862 s, 7.3 MB/s

Add 2nd Persistent Partition: 

fdisk /dev/sd(x)
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1959.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sd(x): 2055 MB, 2055019008 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1959 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3e698287
  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sd(x)1   *           1         607      621568   83  Linux
Command (m for help): n
Command action
  e   extended
  p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (608-1959, default 608): 
Using default value 608
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (608-1959, default 1959): 
Using default value 1959
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sd(x): 2055 MB, 2055019008 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1959 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
 Disk identifier: 0x3e698287
  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sd(x)1   *           1         607      621568   83  Linux
/dev/sd(x)2             608        1959     1384448   83  Linux
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
Installation to VMWare hard disk (or Hard Disk)

Sugar terminal:

su -
yast2 live-installer

add user
yast2 users

change networking

terminal su -

yast2 lan 

Global Options
  [X] Traditional Method with ifup
wireless networking
yast2 lan 

su -
rcnetwork restart

Mult-User Sugar Appliance

To switch users (Students) log out from Sugar and you are presented
with a list of users to connect to.

Prebuilt Sugar Appliance

http://education.opensuse.org/download/ISOs/ (in .zip .vmx and.tar.bz2 formats)

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/ (.raw format for USB Sticks)

Instructions

Important, for all openSUSE Appliances: 

openSUSE-Sugar-0.1.0-Build2.26.1.vmx
no password req to start
Password(root)=sugaruser
====================================
To reset SUGAR ENTIY:
(Clear out name, color, and Sugar Journal contents)
       <sugar terminal>
	rm -rf ~/.sugar
	su -
	password:sugaruser
	shutdown -h now
	restart sugar

INSTRUCTIONS ***VERY IMPORTANT!***
======================================
when you open this VM Appliance with VMPlayer for first time:
	use "I moved it"
	NO NOT click "I Copied it"
	Doing so generates a 2nd MAC id for the network card and leaves it as eth0
	not configured  (It will not work)
	clearing the /.sugar entity (see above) does not affect Mac address
	Nor does changing the color or name on the sugar control panel.

***** ALSO Do the following Right away after opening sugar for the first time:*****
*<sugar terminal>
	su -
 	Password:xxx (see above)
	yast2 sysconfig
	System>Sysconfig>Enable Sysconfig>(NO)
		(this locks out network reconfig)
	exit, shutdown, restart
 **(This seems to stop the autoconfiguration of openSUSE on restart)**

IF F1 Neighborhood is not connecting:

Try this First to start Network Manager:

su - password:xxx rcnetwork restart 

=============
NETWORKING FIX:
	(Networking Fix for loss of F1 Neighborhood:)
	<sugar terminal>
	su-
	Password:xxx (see above)
	yast2 lan 
	switch to non-Network Manager control
	Delete other network cards 
	configure DHCP 4 with hardware and eth0
	exit 

once you get networking to work;
	*<sugar terminal>
	su -
	Password:xxx (see above)
	yast2 lan
	select Network Manager
	exit
		(change to network manager for wireless configration)
then:
	*<sugar terminal>
	su -
 	Password:xxx (see above)
	yast2 sysconfig
	System>Sysconfig>Enable Sysconfig>(NO)
		(this locks out network reconfig)
	exit, shutdown, restart

Image USB/SD Drives

Latest .raw file: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/
Unmount the USB first, then from terminal: 
 sudo dd if=/home/suse/"myappliance".raw of=/dev/sdb bs=4k
Typical Imaging Session

With raw file on ~/Desktop (BE CERTAIN your USB is sdb (the volume ID). (DO NOT use sdb1, the first partition ID). Change, if different. 

XXXX:~/Desktop/$ sudo dd if=openSUSE-Sugar-liveUSB-unstable.i686-0.0.3-Build4.17.raw of=/dev/sdb bs=4k
[sudo] password for XXXX:
 463360+0 records in
 463360+0 records out
1897922560 bytes (1.9 GB) copied, 195.168 s, 9.7 MB/s

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