Category:Live USB

This page, and the notion that we should have a category for Live USB projects, is under discussion on the SoaS list. There is a Sugar Labs Decision Panel commissioned to review this topic. Join the conversation on the mailing list, if you would like to participate or know more.

This directory of Live USB Sugar distribution efforts. Sugar Labs has worked most, for both development and deployment, with Sugar on a Stick. People are, of course, encouraged and free to work on whatever they would like!

See Project Principles and Sugar on a Stick/Resources for a description of the technical and educational goals of the project.

Note: Each of these projects should probably have its own page marked with the Category:Live USB category, but for now here is a list.

Fedora Notes on How to Create a Live USB from a LiveCD

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo

livecd-iso-to-disk to write live USB

(using Fedora 12) takes a downloaded soas.iso file and writes it directly to a USB stick

$ su -c "livecd-iso-to-disk  --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 800 /home/xxx/Desktop/soas-i386-20100208.16.iso /dev/sdb"
Password: 
Verifying image...
/home/xxx/Desktop/soas-i386-20100208.16.iso:   44687aba6b97248baf4416851a433e75
Fragment sums: dfd2916ccb45fa174cf96685e7fdee526f45ce58ad199d63a57ae8fd6b45
Fragment count: 20
Checking: 100.0%
The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
It is OK to use this media.
WARNING: THIS WILL DESTROY ANY DATA ON /dev/sdb!!!
Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort
Warning: The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/sdb (Device or resource busy).
This means Linux won't know anything about the modifications you made until  you reboot.  You should reboot your computer before doing anything with /dev/sdb.
Waiting for devices to settle...
mkdosfs 3.0.1 (23 Nov 2008)
Copying live image to USB stick
Updating boot config file
Installing boot loader
USB stick set up as live image!
$ 

• Sebastian Dziallas is calling the coming iteration of the project he is working on Sugar on a Stick, Blueberry [1]; the name of the overall project is Sugar on a Stick.
• Other distributions:
  • openSUSE-Sugar-Live [2] (dd to USB/SD)+(2nd partition for persistence)[3] [4], works well (11/04/2009)
  • openSUSE-Edu-live-Li-f-e (Server) [5] with Sugar (dd to 8GB USB/SD)+(2nd partition for persistence)Script to automatically make 2nd partition:[6][7]
  • F11-Live-Edu F12:[8] F11:[9] (dd to USB/SD [no persistence] or liveinst from root terminal [persistent]) Live USB of Gnome and Sugar Desktops
  • Trisquel-Edu [10] (Live USB) [11] Trisquel 2.2
  • Trisquel On A Sugar Toast, Trisquel-Sugar [12] Download: [13] script for USB with persistence: [14] Trisequel 3.0, see notes.
  • Unetbootin [15] windows and linux live usb creator
  • Ubuntu-Sugar-Remix [16].iso burned to CD can be installed to USB or imported into Virtualbox with ovf file and then transfer vdi HD to a stick.Downloads:[17]

Notes

1. F12 and opensuse-edu now distribute a dual mode live.iso of Sugar-Desktop which boots into sugar as a CD or can be used to dd write to a USB/SD "stick". (Persistence is a work in progress on these.) Sugar on a Stick/Linux/openSUSE, [18], [19], [20]
2. Sugar from multiple distros is available [21] as a VMware Player or Virtualbox "Appliance", which can be stored on a USB/SD "Stick", and thus is transportable with (persistence) from PC to PC.
3. There are "full installs" (non-compressed file structure) of Sugar, Sugar+Gnome, and Sugar+KDE on larger (4-GB+) USB Sticks, which are available for download [22] in compressed form, which can be expanded and written to a bootable USB/SD device with a dd command in several minutes.
4. most liveo F12 distros can be installed as a "full install" to USB/SD. This requires a 4GB USB/SD for soas04 or 8GB USB/SD for Gnome-sugar [23] Use command "livinst" in root terminal. These are a normal install with Persistence.

Trisquel notes

from Rubén Rodríguez Pérez on SoaS list:

• Trisquel-Edu (Live USB)
• Trisquel-Sugar 3.0 RC (has usb-creator available as command in terminal for persistent USB)

I will further explain the differences:

1. We are including the Sugar packages in both our 2.2 LTS version (where you can find the Trisquel Edu edition), and in our new 3.0 STS version. All our live Sugar images will be based on the STS one, as it will provide better hardware support.
2. Trisquel Edu, which is a GNOME based educational system, can run Sugar as an alternate environment, or serve it via LTSP. The Edu edition (like the Pro one) is only available in the 2.2 LTS version of the distro. It will be the recommended version for large Sugar-on-Trisquel deployments.