Activities/Toaster

flying toaster

Our goal is to allow any XO user or XO in book mode (even as a kiosk) to select and create:

• USB sticks (such as Sugar on a Stick) An instruction document Creation Kit is helpful
• a CD or DVD disc from an .iso image if an external drive is connected

We will use as simple a user interface as possible for use semi-unattended as a kiosk. We plan to do extensive compatibility testing on XO 1.0 and 1.5 hardware as well as on builds which are already deployed. An important part of making this activity successful will be implementing methods that are usable on as wide a hardware and software user base as possible.

Our project was approved for the OLPC Contributor program after completing a proposal. Our development environments also include Virtualbox hosted .iso images.

This activity is not yet functional but we are making progress.

There are many ways to create USB sticks and much work has been done that we can use. Creating a CD or DVD is relatively simple with connected hardware. Collaboration is encouraged as we get the project going. We recommend you begin by providing input through the email list. Inspiration for this project comes from many similar projects to share free and open source software.

Email list: http://groups.google.com/group/xotoaster/ <- please subscribe if interested

Wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Toaster <- here

IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=toaster or your own client in #toaster

Bugs: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?component=Toaster

Code: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/toaster

Open Hatch: http://openhatch.org/+projects/Toaster%20Sugar%20Activity

Distribution : http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ when we are ready

Theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrF_K1w2haE

our wiki pages

• Activities/Toaster/UI
• Activities/Toaster/USB
• Activities/Toaster/Disc
• Activities/Toaster/Develop
  • Activities/Toaster/Wishlist
• Activities/Toaster/Schedule
• Activities/Toaster/CafeQuestions

other open source software

• Sugar Creation Kit DVD - excellent reference for us
• SoaS Sugar Clone shell scripts
• Burner On Fire wodim wrapper GTK GUI program
• usb-creator: https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator (Fedora recommended for Fedora Linux)
  • launchpad source code
  • How To Sugarize liveusb-creator:[1]
  • Duplicating_SoaS_with_customization [2]
  • Mirabelle-remix:[3]* Make a Live or non-live USB from a booted CD*
  • Make a Soas-v2-Blueberry Installer USB (with liveusb-creator installed)[4]
• UNetbootin (Fedora recommended for other Linux)
  • uses syslinux
• Trisquel and many other Sugar distributions are developing similar features but not that I have seen at the activity level.
  • possible naming confusion (we are Toaster) with Trisquel on a Sugar Toast http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast
• K3b: http://k3b.org/
• Brasero: http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/
• cdrkit: http://www.cdrkit.org/ includes wodim binary
• cdwrite.sh: http://rww.name/scripts/cdwrite.sh
• 'buntustand: https://launchpad.net/buntustand
• Freedom Toaster inspired our Activity's name