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Updated 09/26/2010
http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Live
http://en.opensuse.org/Sugar
http://software.opensuse.org/113/en
Reviews: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/opensuse-11sp3-edu-life.html
(See: cyberorg on #irc #sugar #opensuse-edu for details.)
  • SUSE is building and hosting appliances at these sites for downloading.
Live CD
Installation to Virtualbox; VMWare; & Hard Disk
  • Booted USB
Sugar (root) terminal:
su -
yast
(non-graphical YaST2 Control Center starts)
Miscellaneous/live-installer
add user
  • Booted USB
Sugar (root) terminal:
su -
yast
(non-graphical YaST2 Control Center starts)
Security and Users/User and Group Management
change networking
  • Booted USB
Sugar (root) terminal:
su -
yast
(non-graphical YaST2 Control Center starts)
Network Devices/Network Settings

  [X] Traditional Method with ifup
wireless networking
yast2 lan

su - 
yast2 lan
need to switch networking out of network manager; edit and add wireless wlan wireless wlan0; and enter info on encrypted or open, and if WEP, SSID plus WEP Key information.
select wired interface>edit>general>activate device>never
ok
yast2 lan (2nd time) select manage with Network Manager 
ok
Reboot USB/SD
Go to drop down box on network and delete network history. Be sure to have radio box checked.
Reboot again, On F1 neighborhood should see circles for wireless network connections. 
Mouse over the one you want to use and enter passwords if requested on drop down box
On reboot, to get wireless connection to connect, you may have to enter the following in terminal:
su -
rcnetwork restart
Mult-User Sugar Appliance
yast2 users
Add User  ie: Student1, student2
advanced>autologon no password (if you want no passwords )
yast2 lan
disconnect network manager
configure interface
restart
To switch users (Students) log out from Sugar and you are presented
with a list of users to connect to.
Prebuilt Sugar Appliance
  • Prebuilt VMPlayr.vmx file for Download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/Sugar/
http://education.opensuse.org/download/ISOs/ (in .zip .vmx and.tar.bz2 formats)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/ (.raw format for USB Sticks)
  • Run on VMware Player or VirtualBox after decompressing.
Instructions

Important, for all openSUSE Appliances: 

openSUSE-Sugar-0.1.0-Build2.26.1.vmx
no password req to start
Password(root)=sugaruser
====================================
To reset SUGAR ENTIY:
(Clear out name, color, and Sugar Journal contents)
       <sugar terminal>
	rm -rf ~/.sugar
	su -
	password:sugaruser
	shutdown -h now
	restart sugar

INSTRUCTIONS ***VERY IMPORTANT!***
======================================
when you open this VM Appliance with VMPlayer for first time:
	use "I moved it"
	NO NOT click "I Copied it"
	Doing so generates a 2nd MAC id for the network card and leaves it as eth0
	not configured  (It will not work)
	clearing the /.sugar entity (see above) does not affect Mac address
	Nor does changing the color or name on the sugar control panel.

***** ALSO Do the following Right away after opening sugar for the first time:*****
*<sugar terminal>
	su -
 	Password:xxx (see above)
	yast2 sysconfig
	System>Sysconfig>Enable Sysconfig>(NO)
		(this locks out network reconfig)
	exit, shutdown, restart
 **(This seems to stop the autoconfiguration of openSUSE on restart)**

IF F1 Neighborhood is not connecting:

Try this First to start Network Manager:

  • <sugar terminal>
su -
password:xxx
rcnetwork restart
=============
NETWORKING FIX:
	(Networking Fix for loss of F1 Neighborhood:)
	<sugar terminal>
	su-
	Password:xxx (see above)
	yast2 lan 
	switch to non-Network Manager control
	Delete other network cards 
	configure DHCP 4 with hardware and eth0
	exit 

once you get networking to work;
	*<sugar terminal>
	su -
	Password:xxx (see above)
	yast2 lan
	select Network Manager
	exit
		(change to network manager for wireless configration)
then:
	*<sugar terminal>
	su -
 	Password:xxx (see above)
	yast2 sysconfig
	System>Sysconfig>Enable Sysconfig>(NO)
		(this locks out network reconfig)
	exit, shutdown, restart

Image USB/SD Drives

Newest versions of live .iso can be installed to USB/SD with dd command:
Now 2nd partition can be created with a script: http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick
http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick#Create_partition_from_remaining_space
 *(x)be careful to use correct device or you can wipe your hard disk!
===========unformatted 2GB USB==================
dd if=openSUSE-Sugar.i686-11.2.0-Build2.1.iso of=/dev/sd(x) bs=4M
151+1 records in
151+1 records out
636485632 bytes (636 MB) copied, 86.862 s, 7.3 MB/s

Add 2nd Persistent Partition: 

fdisk /dev/sd(x)
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1959.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): pDisk /dev/sd(x): 2055 MB, 2055019008 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1959 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3e698287
  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sd(x)1   *           1         607      621568   83  Linux
Command (m for help): n
Command action
  e   extended
  p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (608-1959, default 608): 
Using default value 608
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (608-1959, default 1959): 
Using default value 1959
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sd(x): 2055 MB, 2055019008 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1959 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
 Disk identifier: 0x3e698287
  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sd(x)1   *           1         607      621568   83  Linux
/dev/sd(x)2             608        1959     1384448   83  Linux
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

raw file with dd command

Latest .raw file: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/
  • Extract raw file
Unmount the USB first, then from terminal:
 sudo dd if=/home/suse/"myappliance".raw of=/dev/sdb bs=4k
Typical Imaging Session

With raw file on ~/Desktop (BE CERTAIN your USB is sdb (the volume ID). (DO NOT use sdb1, the first partition ID). Change, if different. 

XXXX:~/Desktop/$ sudo dd if=openSUSE-Sugar-liveUSB-unstable.i686-0.0.3-Build4.17.raw of=/dev/sdb bs=4k
[sudo] password for XXXX:
 463360+0 records in
 463360+0 records out
1897922560 bytes (1.9 GB) copied, 195.168 s, 9.7 MB/s

For Advanced Users

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KIWI_Cookbook_Live_USB-Stick


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