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* note: this is *not* a method to create a SugarOnAStick (LiveUSB). Though you can install to an external usb drive/stick, resulting in an installation that very similarly boots your system to the Sugar UI. The difference is that the resulting system is not a 'Live' system. This means that it uses a normal filesystem, instead of a compressed read-only filesystem with a read-write snapshot/overlay above, as a 'LiveUSB' does. | * note: this is *not* a method to create a SugarOnAStick (LiveUSB). Though you can install to an external usb drive/stick, resulting in an installation that very similarly boots your system to the Sugar UI. The difference is that the resulting system is not a 'Live' system. This means that it uses a normal filesystem, instead of a compressed read-only filesystem with a read-write snapshot/overlay above, as a 'LiveUSB' does. | ||
| − | * IMPORTANT WARNING: understand that this is a fairly new piece of open source software, that will overwrite entire partitions or disks ** as well as your bootloader ** during installation. In this release of SoaS, it is intended only for users that are familiar with the risks and possible complications of installing a Linux distribution to system disk. | + | * IMPORTANT WARNING: understand that this is a fairly new piece of open source software, that will overwrite entire partitions or disks ** as well as your bootloader ** during installation. In this release of SoaS, it is intended only for users that are familiar with the risks and possible complications of installing a Linux distribution to system disk. If you need a dual boot configuration, you will need to configure grub yourself (at least for the current version). |
* To use | * To use | ||
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::* note: formatting in the partitioner is not required. | ::* note: formatting in the partitioner is not required. | ||
::* exit the partitioner by hitting the X in the top corner of window. | ::* exit the partitioner by hitting the X in the top corner of window. | ||
| − | :* read and follow the simple wizard, choosing destination volumes/partitions for boot | + | :* read and follow the simple wizard, choosing destination volumes/partitions for root, boot, and swap. |
* This is a *destructive* install, meaning that the contents of the disks or partitions you choose will be overwritten entirely. | * This is a *destructive* install, meaning that the contents of the disks or partitions you choose will be overwritten entirely. | ||
* During installation, you are free to use other activities. | * During installation, you are free to use other activities. | ||
* After installation completes, you may remove the LiveUSB or LiveCD, and continue using the newly installed system - ''without rebooting''!!!. This means that anything done with the system before, during, or after installation persists into the installed system. | * After installation completes, you may remove the LiveUSB or LiveCD, and continue using the newly installed system - ''without rebooting''!!!. This means that anything done with the system before, during, or after installation persists into the installed system. | ||
* For more information, see the upstream project website [http://filteredperception.org/smiley/projects/zyx-liveinstaller] | * For more information, see the upstream project website [http://filteredperception.org/smiley/projects/zyx-liveinstaller] | ||
Revision as of 02:15, 9 December 2009
ZyX-LiveInstaller
- ZyX-LiveInstaller allows you to install SoaS when it is already running from either a LiveUSB device or LiveCD media to a system or external disk. This results in what is considered a traditional operating system installation on disk (or USB-Stick/SD-Card).
- note: this is *not* a method to create a SugarOnAStick (LiveUSB). Though you can install to an external usb drive/stick, resulting in an installation that very similarly boots your system to the Sugar UI. The difference is that the resulting system is not a 'Live' system. This means that it uses a normal filesystem, instead of a compressed read-only filesystem with a read-write snapshot/overlay above, as a 'LiveUSB' does.
- IMPORTANT WARNING: understand that this is a fairly new piece of open source software, that will overwrite entire partitions or disks ** as well as your bootloader ** during installation. In this release of SoaS, it is intended only for users that are familiar with the risks and possible complications of installing a Linux distribution to system disk. If you need a dual boot configuration, you will need to configure grub yourself (at least for the current version).
- To use
- boot your SugarOnAStick
- start the terminal activity, type in lowercase 'zyx-liveinstaller', then press enter.
- start the partitioner 'gparted' if necessary
- you will need at least a single partition for the root filesystem, that is greater than 2GB. Some disks labeled and sold as 2GB may not be quite large enough.
- optionally create a seperate partition for the /boot filesystem, at least 42MB in size
- optionally create a seperate partition for swap space, typically 1 or 2 times the size of ram in your system. This will allow the use of hibernation (suspend-to-disk, via pm-hibernate command run from root terminal shell).
- note: formatting in the partitioner is not required.
- exit the partitioner by hitting the X in the top corner of window.
- read and follow the simple wizard, choosing destination volumes/partitions for root, boot, and swap.
- This is a *destructive* install, meaning that the contents of the disks or partitions you choose will be overwritten entirely.
- During installation, you are free to use other activities.
- After installation completes, you may remove the LiveUSB or LiveCD, and continue using the newly installed system - without rebooting!!!. This means that anything done with the system before, during, or after installation persists into the installed system.
- For more information, see the upstream project website [1]