Sugar on a Stick/Windows
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Introduction
This page is designed to help you to put your Sugar on a Stick image on a thumbdrive using Microsoft Windows. If you have questions, trouble or feedback, please let us know on the Sugar on a Stick talk page. If you can improve these instructions, please edit the page and do so!
with Microsoft Windows
There are three ways to do this:
- 1. Burn a CD-ROM disc, boot from it, then run the script, livecd-iso-to-disk
- Use Windows 7 built-in Disk Image Burner or a free utility, like ImgBurn, to write the downloaded Sugar on a Stick .iso file onto a blank CD.
- Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card Notes) with 2 GB or more of free space into your computer.
- Boot your computer with the CD-ROM disc. You probably need to press F1, F10, F12, Esc, or a similar key as the computer starts up in order to set the boot source for your computer to the CD-ROM device.
- A successful boot will take you into Sugar on a Stick. You can From there, open the Terminal Activity, , from the Home list View.
- Switch to run commands with 'root' user permissions by entering
su -
on the command line. - Change the working directory, by entering
cd /run/initramfs/live/LiveOS
- Verify the USB/SD scsi drive node name (such as sda, sdb, etc.) and partition (such as 1, 2, etc.) for your USB/SD device. It would look like, for example,
/dev/sdb1
.- The
df -Th
command shows your device filesystem on a device node, for example, /dev/sdb1, mounted on a directory mount point, such as /run/media/liveuser/<USBdeviceManufacturer>
- The
- Unmount the USB device filesystem with this command:
umount /run/media/liveuser/MyUSBdiscMountPoint
, whereMyUSBdiscMountPoint
isSanDisk
in the dropdown example, above. - Execute this command line: (Substitute the
/dev/sd?1
, below, with the node name you determined in step 7, above.)./livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 900 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /run/initramfs/livedev /dev/sd?1
(The 500 and 900 size values, above, are suitable for a 2 GB USB device. For a 4 GB device, one might use 1000 and 1800 megabytes instead.)
- Shutdown the physical machine.
- Reboot your computer from the newly-installed Live USB with Sugar on a Stick.
You should see something like the following:
[root@localhost ~]# df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/live-rw ext4 2.9G 2.1G 773M 74% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 72K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 632K 2.0G 1% /run tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sr0 iso9660 670M 670M 0 100% /run/initramfs/live tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 32K 2.0G 1% /tmp varcacheyum tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/cache/yum vartmp tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/tmp /dev/sdb1 vfat 3.8G 4.0K 3.8G 1% /run/media/liveuser/SanDisk
The installation transcript should look like the following:
[root@localhost LiveOS]# ./livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 1000 --home-size-mb 1800 --unencrypted-home /run/initramfs/livedev /dev/sdb1 Verifying image... /dev/sr0: 86396857ba250ac9622e2cced37242c0 Fragment sums: 9b844726affc45a47d6ddf73ba13d88c8f6f6fff2cbcf55476ebe3bbc4a4 Fragment count: 20 Press [Esc] to abort check. Checking: 100.0% The media check is complete, the result is: PASS. It is OK to use this media. Copying live image to target device. squashfs.img 632,832,000 100% 5.63MB/s 0:01:47 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1) osmin.img 8,192 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1) Updating boot config file Initializing persistent overlay file 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 193.866 s, 5.4 MB/s Initializing persistent /home 1800+0 records in 1800+0 records out 1887436800 bytes (1.9 GB) copied, 592.395 s, 3.2 MB/s Formatting unencrypted /home mke2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 115200 inodes, 460800 blocks 23040 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=473956352 15 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 7680 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (8192 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done tune2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013) Setting maximal mount count to -1 Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds Installing boot loader Target device is now set up with a Live image!
- 2. Use Fedora Live USB Creator
- (This installation method is NOT recommended for LONG-TERM usage of Sugar on a Stick!! Catastrophic data corruption may occur when the USB stick gets full! See why.)
- Download the Live USB Creator from Fedora.
- Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card Notes) with 2 GB or more of free space into your computer.
- Launch Live USB Creator.
- Select the 'Browse' button to 'Use existing Live CD' and find the downloaded .iso file image on your system.
- Adjust the Persistent Storage slider. This enables you to save changes to the system and additional Sugar Activities onto the device.
- Select your flash drive as the target, and click the Create Live USB button.
- Wait for the process to finish, then close the Live USB Creator program.
- Stop your flash drive with the Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media notification area icon dialog, and eject it.
- See a screenshot tutorial for this.
- See a video of an earlier version of this process.
- 3. Launch a virtual machine with the Sugar on a Stick .iso file, then run the script, livecd-iso-to-disk
- Download and install VirtualBox (for example; you could do something similar with another vm).
- Create a new virtual machine.
- Choose Linux for the Operating System and Version Fedora (64 bit) if available, or Fedora, on systems lacking 64-bit functionality.
- Attach the Sugar on a Stick .iso file as a CD in the Storage Section
- Insert a USB storage device into your physical computer and enable the VirtualBox USB controller. Then add a filter to recognize the inserted device in the USB section of the VirtualBox machine setup.
- Start the new virtual machine.
- Verify that the USB device is recognized in the running virtual machine.
- Your device appears in the hover box for the USB stick icon in the virtual machine bottom frame.
df -Th
shows your device filesystem on a device node, for example, /dev/sda1, mounted on a directory mount point, such as /run/media/<AccountName>/<USBdeviceManufacturer>
- Continue from step #4 in the Burn a CD-ROM disc section above.
- Shutdown the virtual machine.
- Reboot your physical computer from the newly-installed Live USB with Sugar on a Stick.
You should see something like the following:
[root@localhost LiveOS]# df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs rootfs 4.0G 2.5G 1.5G 63% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 84K 1.6G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 1.2M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/sr0 iso9660 509M 509M 0 100% /run/initramfs/live /dev/mapper/live-rw ext4 4.0G 2.5G 1.5G 63% / tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /media varcacheyum tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /var/cache/yum tmp tmpfs 1.6G 40K 1.6G 1% /tmp vartmp tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /var/tmp /dev/sda1 vfat 3.7G 2.1G 1.7G 56% /run/media/liveuser/TOSHIBA
Notes
A Secure Digital (SD) card may not be marked as a bootable device. To check this, use these instructions at a Linux terminal or console:
- Check the disk partition table for a device, such as
/dev/sdc
,
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
<----that's a lowercase letter 'L' for the list option.
parted /dev/sdc
toggle 1 boot
quit
You should see something like the following:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 4012 MB, 4012900352 bytes 124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders, total 7837696 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000a9c7 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 62 7834071 3917005 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
The asterisk, * , under the Boot column indicates that the partition is bootable.
If it is missing, then execute the commands here: