Sugar on a Stick/Linux/Installation

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

This page is transcluded to various installation instruction pages.

  1. Download the latest Sugar on a Stick .iso file.

  2. 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.
    • With root user permissions at a terminal or console command line, use the command sudo df -Th or sudo blkid to get the USB device node name.
      • (Items in angle brackets, such as <MyAccount> are descriptive placeholders.)
       You should see something like the following: 
      [<user>@<system> <working directory>]$ sudo df -Th
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs         rootfs     20G  5.5G   14G  29% /
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.6G  788K  1.6G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.6G  1.3M  1.6G   1% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /media
/dev/loop0     iso9660   959M  959M     0 100% /run/soas
/dev/sdc1      vfat      2.0G  2.0G   53M  98% /run/media/<MyAccount>/<filesystem label>/
      (The /run/media/<MyAccount>/ path is the standard mount point for removable media.
      /media/<MyMountPoint> is common on other operating systems.)
      [<user>@<system> <working directory>]$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Fedora30" UUID="45e12f4a-51f2-463e-a33b-a6c0f157ab77" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="000b2340-04" 
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="LIVE" UUID="D2AC-5056" TYPE="vfat"  PARTUUID="000056b3-01" 
/dev/loop0: UUID="2019-04-26-02-34-40-00" LABEL="Fedora-WS-Live-30-1-2" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="34258370" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/loop0p1: UUID="2019-04-26-02-34-40-00" LABEL="Fedora-WS-Live-30-1-2" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="34258370" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="34258370-01"
/dev/loop0p2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL_FATBOOT="ANACONDA" LABEL="ANACONDA" UUID="E385-716D" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="34258370-02"
/dev/loop0p3: UUID="8f5370e2-fd7c-3f3a-9d01-aa72345be183" LABEL="ANACONDA" TYPE="hfsplus" PARTUUID="34258370-03"
      (Additional disk drive partitions may be listed on your computer.)
      The mount point (Mounted on), Filesystem, Size, and LABEL should help you identify what you want.
    • Unmount the USB device filesystem:
      umount /run/media/<MyAccount>/<MyUSBdiscMountPoint>
      (The /run/media/<MyAccount>/ path is the 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.)

  3. Load: Execute the following installation command, as the root user, in one command line with many options:
    /run/soas/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 500 --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 ~960 MB, and the overlay and home size arguments, 500 and 500, were selected to fit in a 2 GB device. These may be adjusted depending on your preferences and device capacity (see LiveOS image). On a 4 GB device, one might use 1000 and 1600 for the size arguments.
     The installation transcript should look something like the following: 
    [<user>@<system> <working directory>]$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 500 --unencrypted-home /<path to>/Fedora-SoaS-Live-x86_64-29-1.2.iso /dev/sdc1
Verifying image...
/<path to>/Fedora-SoaS-Live-x86_64-29-1.2.iso:   7641738bb0493f4a521af3a694e4f4ae
Fragment sums: 7c5f6e26254ca7438da4d5b28a72a9f38711e3bb34b2748e177533ef5c25
Fragment count: 20
Supported ISO: no
Press [Esc] to abort check.
Checking: 100.0%

The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.

It is OK to use this media.

Copying LiveOS image to target device...
squashfs.img
    905,187,328 100%  374.66MB/s    0:00:02 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1)

Syncing filesystem writes to disc.
    Please wait, this may take a while...
Setting up /EFI/BOOT
Updating boot config files.
Initializing persistent overlay...
500+0 records in
500+0 records out
524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 0.448825 s, 1.2 GB/s
Initializing persistent /home
500+0 records in
500+0 records out
524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 0.415686 s, 1.3 GB/s
Formatting unencrypted home.img
mke2fs 1.44.3 (10-July-2018)
Creating filesystem with 512000 1k blocks and 128016 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 8fc0d8be-5c67-46a8-b621-6bd62bad3267
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done 

tune2fs 1.44.3 (10-July-2018)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
Installing boot loader...
Target device is now set up with a Live image!

  4. Boot: Insert the USB stick into a bootable USB port on your computer. Set the option to "boot from USB" in your computer's BIOS setup, and then start up the computer.

  • To create more Sugar Sticks on other 2 GB or greater USB or SD devices, while running Sugar on a Stick, one may run the Terminal Activity, and execute this command as the root user:
    livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 500 --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.
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