Difference between revisions of "Tutorials/Installation/Install with liveinst"

Revision as of 15:29, 31 January 2012

Fedora-16-Live-SoaS liveinst

The Fedora Sugar on a Stick Spin can be installed from a booted SoaS Live CD/USB.

Download links:

i386: Fedora-16-i686-Live-SoaS

x86-64: Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-SoaS

This tutorial is set up for a 4 GB USB stick or VirtualBox 4 GB hard disk install.
You can also install to a regular hard disk. See Type of installation below.
Burn and Boot the CD, or load the .iso as described here, and boot the Live USB.

Name Screen

First Screen that appears when boot is done.

The Name and colors screens set the individual SSH ID for the user and only run once.

(Enter Name you want to use.)

Colors

Chose colors for your Sugar learner avitar

Click on the avitar to change colors - repeat to change again.

Click (done) when you are happy with it.

Home view

Sugar starts at the Home view (F3).

Terminal application is selected.

Click on [#_] Become root

liveinst

Enter the command liveinst, which starts the Anaconda installer.

Language

Storage devices

Choose Basic Storage Devices
Click [Next]

Hostname selection

Time zone selection

Password

Enter it twice.

Type of installation

USB stick: Create Custom Layout
You MUST SELECT THIS OPTION.
Hard disk: Select Use All Space and proceed to Copying to hard drive.
Caution: This will delete everything on the chosen hard drive.

Other drive configurations are possible if you have free space
on your hard disk, but booting may be more complicated.

Click [Next]

Select edit /sda, or the disk where you want to install Sugar.

Create:

File System Type: BIOS Boot Size (MB): 2

Mount Point: / File System Type: ext4 Size (MB): 2500 (or space available)

File System Type: swap Size (MB): 500 for hard disk installation. (Swap is not recommended for USB flash drives.)

(Fedora 16 (and later) requires a BIOS boot partition in the default configuration.)

Click [OK]
[Next]

Copying to hard drive

Congratulations

Finished
[Reboot]

Shut down the computer.
Reboot from the USB device or hard drive.
On reboot, you will enter "firstboot" to register yourself and your Sugar Learner colors.

This is similar to the name and color screens when the Live CD/USB first booted.

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 * The Fedora [[Sugar on a Stick]] Spin can be installed from a booted SoaS Live CD/USB.
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-*Note. liveinst fails  on latest f17 Soas Nightly Composes, hopefully it will be fixed soon  1/31/2012
 Download links:
 : i386: [http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/linux/releases/16/Spins/i686/Fedora-16-i686-Live-SoaS.iso Fedora-16-i686-Live-SoaS]