Sugar on a Stick
About Sugar on a Stick
The goal of the Sugar on a Stick project is to give children access to *their* Sugar on any computer in their environment with just a USB key.
Creating a USB Stick
We are still in preAlpha on this project. It is not ready to use with children yet.
The basics of creating a Live, bootable USB are you download a live USB .iso image. Then you use a USB creator program to copy it to a USB, create a space for users to store files on the USB and set it to be bootable.
In practice this means the first thing you need is a Live USB creator.
Windows
for Windows: http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/liveusb-creator-3.0.zip
Download that file to a windows machine and install it.
Next download current version of Sugar that we are testing for Sugar on a Stick: http://www.sugarlabs.org/~marco/liveusb.iso
Plug in a 1GB or larger USB stick into your computer.
Open "liveusb-creator.exe"
Use "Browse" to find "liveusb.iso" that you just downloaded.
Set the Target Device to your USB device
How much persistent memory you set will depend on the size of the .iso and the size of your USB but make sure you have some so people can save files.
Click "Create Live USB". It will take a few minutes.
Using Sugar on a Stick
The trick is to set the BIOS to boot from USB. Unfortunately this is slightly different on each computer. Try Google on BIOS your computer model and explore the setup screen for your system.
If you have trouble try creating a "Boot Helper" CD using the .iso below. This will start the boot from the CD then read files from the USB.
http://www.sugarlabs.org/~marco/boot.iso
Join the development effort
We are coordinating work on this project on Sugar Labs Moodle system. Please create an account and join the Sugar on a Stick Class. http://schools.sugarlabs.org/course/view.php?id=17
Report Sugar on a Stick Bugs
Use the Sugar Trak system at dev.sugarlabs.org to report bugs. Use the "Sugar on a Stick" component.