Features/SoaS Creation Station
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Summary
A Custom Remix of Gnome Desktop with livecd-tools and spin-kickstarts
- It can be either a liveCD or An Install CD.
- Targeted Audience: Teachers, Experienced Users, and Deployments.
- This Feature will allow Users to Make Customized Respins by editing kickstart files and Building Custom-Remix.iso files.
- Detailed instuction on how to make remixes will be provided on the Desktop and as a default firefox web page wiki:[http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Build-Your-Own-Remix.txt Talk:Features/SoaS Remixability#Build_Your_Own_Remix
- This CD provides a complete set of tools for Creating a Custom Remix of Soas.
- Requires installation to a Hard Disk to allow Building .iso's.
- Recommended Install Method: Sugar_on_a_Stick/ZyX-LiveInstaller Works wih zyx.?
- (still testing=looks like livecd-tools may use too many resources with the zyx-liveinstaller file structure) still testing 09/09/2010 tg
- Managed to do build on 16Gb USB took 4+ hrs. NOT PRACTICAL (as need LVM structured install for enough room)08/14/2010
- (still testing=looks like livecd-tools may use too many resources with the zyx-liveinstaller file structure) still testing 09/09/2010 tg
- zyx-liveinstaller copies the SCS CD exactly (as It is running on Users Desktop.) Any personal customization is transferred to a normal file system on the users Hard Disk
- zyx-liveinstaller (In fedora repositories) is included on the SCS.iso
- CD also includes gparted; livecd-tools, spin-kickstarts.
- liveinst(Anaconda) does not transfer the custom features of the SCS.iso
- Coordination with the Remixability feature.Features/SoaS Remixability
- May require using Anaconda with custom anaconda.cfg and .ks (If this is possible)
Owner
- Name: Thomas Gilliard
- Email: satellit <at> bendbroadband <dot> com
Current status
- Targeted release: (Soas v4 Mango Lassi)
- Last updated: Thomas Gilliard 06:08, 9 Sept 2010 (PST)
- Percentage of completion: 40%
Detailed Description
- This CD will Provide the tools, including detailed instructions, for creating a custom Soas-remix.
- References on how to use the SCS will be added to The Customization Guide.
Benefit to Sugar
Promotes our already-existing technical flexibility to customize Soas-v4 for Deployments and individuals.
- add/delete desired applications to standard set on .iso
- Targeted uses:
- Multiple Language versions (Including EU Languages?)
- e-book reader
- Older students
- Games
- Shared kickstart files e-mailed to SOAS and posted to wiki allow others to learn how to make a .ks file and try various remixes.
- Posted links to a Catalog of prebuilt remix.iso's, with a description of their use and contents, allows less skilled users to use them.
Scope
The technical ability to create remixes has worked for a long time.
- all entries labled xxxx-remix were built using these instructions:
- Current
- Archive:
The implementation of this feature depends on:
- the editing of the Customization Guide
- The creation of a wiki page
UI Design
N/A
How To Test
Features/SoaS Creation Station/Testing
- 1-) Burn .iso to CD and boot from CD
- 2-) Install to HD with zyx-liveinstaller (Icon is on desktop)
- use partitioner (button at top of zyx-liveinstaller window) to partition HD
- /boot 500 ext4
- / (balance of HD minus 10000)
- swap 10000
- exit partitioner "X" on top right of window
- Hit -> arrow at bottom of zyx-liveinstaller
- Select root (/); boot-(/boot); swap.
- Hit -> arrow at bottom of zyx-liveinstaller to begin install
- 3-)Reboot to HD when installer completes.
- make a new directory on the Desktop "spin-kickstarts"
open terminal and enter this command:
cp /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/*.ks /home/(user)/Desktop/spin-kickstarts
- Follow instructions on wiki: Talk:Features/SoaS Remixability#Build_Your_Own_Remix
- 4-) Create your own Remix.iso with one of the .ks files in the Desktop spin-kickstarts folder
- edit with gedit the .ks file to add programs etc; save with new name in spin-kickstarts folder
- save-as to use new name of your .ks and then copy that name inot the following commands in a new gedit file:
livecd-creator \ --config=/home/(user)/Desktop/spin-kickstarts/fedora-livecd-soas.ks \ --fslabel=SCS-v(2-3-4)-dd/mm/year-Remix --cache=/var/cache/live
- copy-paste the above edited command to a root terminal:
cd Desktop # Desktop
connect to internet and hit return and Build should begin..(up to 1 hr to finish )
- Burn .iso to CD
- Boot from new Remix
User Experience
Wider choices for users of Soas-v4 due to ability to Customize.
Dependencies
None that I know of.
Contingency Plan
Not Needed
Documentation
Log of successful build on 8GB USB: Talk:Features/SoaS Creation Station
Instructions: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Build-Your-Own-Remix.txt
Remixability: Talk:Features/SoaS Remixability#Build_Your_Own_Remix
Release Notes
None Needed