Sugar on a Stick/Windows

Introduction

This page is designed to help you to put your Sugar on a Stick image on a thumbdrive using Microsoft Windows. If you have questions, trouble or feedback, please let us know on the SoaS talk page. If you can improve these instructions, please edit the page and do so!

with Microsoft Windows

• Either use Fedora Live USB Creator
  1. Download the Live USB Creator from FedoraHosted here.
  2. Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card) with 1 GB or more of free space into your computer. (See LiveOS image and Cautions with using Live USB devices regarding flash drive size and usage.)
  3. Launch Live USB Creator.
  4. Select the 'Browse' button to 'Use existing Live CD' and find the downloaded .iso file image on your system.
  5. Adjust the Persistent Storage slider. This enables you to save changes to the system and additional Sugar Activities onto the device.
  6. Select your flash drive as the target, and click the Create Live USB button.
  7. Wait for the process to finish, then close the Live USB Creator program.
  8. Stop your flash drive with the Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media notification area icon dialog, and eject it.

See a video of an earlier version of this process here.

Note: The above installation method does not allow the full optimization of data storage that comes from installing a separate, persistent home directory—see the alternate method just below.

• or Burn a CD-ROM disc with the SoaS Mirabelle .iso file.
  1. Use Windows 7 built-in Disk Image Burner or a free utility, like ImgBurn, to write the downloaded SoaS .iso file onto a blank CD.
  2. Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card) with 1 GB or more of free space into your computer. (See LiveOS image and Cautions with using Live USB devices regarding flash drive size and usage.)
  3. Boot your computer with the CD-ROM disc. You probably need to press F1, F10, F12, Esc, or a similar key as the computer starts up in order to set the boot source for your computer to the CD-ROM device.
  4. A successful boot will take you into Sugar on a Stick Mirabelle. From there, open the Terminal Activity, , from the Home view.
     
     See the Terminal Activity manual.
  5. Click the 'Become root' icon, , to gain administrative permissions in the Terminal session.
  6. Change the working directory to /LiveOS/
cd /LiveOS/
  7. execute the Linux command line:
     ./livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /dev/live /dev/sd?1

Be certain of your USB/SD scsi drive node name (such as sda, sdb, etc.) and partition (such as 1, 2, etc.), yielding, for example, /dev/sdb1.

Use the df -Th command to confirm your devices before executing the script.

Note: Every Mirabelle or Strawberry Sugar on a Stick can copy its original installation to another USB stick or SD card by following the above instructions. See Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone for instructions on how to customize the contents of a Sugar on a Stick device.

• or Launch a virtual machine, such as VirtualBox with the SoaS Mirabelle .iso file.

  See SoaS on VirtualBox.