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Sugar on a Stick/Linux

2009-06-22T00:36:18Z

Eightdot: /* Put SoaS on to a stick using Fedora and Ubuntu */

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== Introduction ==
This page helps you to put your [[Sugar on a Stick]] image on a USB flash drive under Linux. If you have questions, trouble or feedback, please let us know on the [[Talk:Sugar on a Stick|SoaS talk]] page. "Sugar on a Stick" is provided in a number of variants. If you can improve these instructions, please edit the page and do so!

== Put [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation/OLPC | SoaS on an OLPC XO-1]] ==
* See [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation/OLPC]] for booting an OLPC XO-1 with SoaS images.

== Put SoaS as a vmware appliance onto a vmware player stick ==

[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware These instructions] will help you put a [[Sugar on a Stick#Downloading|SoaS image]] onto a USB
stick that boots into VMPlayer that then runs a VMAppliance containing a [[Sugar on a Stick#Downloading|SoaS image]].

== openSUSE SoaS variant ==

For the openSUSE Sugar variant (bundled with 55+ activities) go to http://en.opensuse.org/Sugar

== Put SoaS on to a stick using Fedora and Ubuntu ==

This is known to work in Fedora and Ubuntu.

First, start downloading a SoaS <tt>.iso</tt> image from the [[Sugar on a Stick#Downloading|images]] table, then return here.

* Make sure you have the ''syslinux'' package installed on the operating system that you will use to prepare the Live USB image. It is recommended that you also have the ''isomd5sum'' package installed. The ''cryptsetup'' package is another option potentially used by the "livecd-iso-to-disk" installation script. (On Ubuntu, <code>sudo apt-get install syslinux isomd5sum cryptsetup</code> will install the packages.)
* It might be needed to uncomment 'SAMPLE FILE' in /etc/mtools/mtools.conf to make syslinux work,at least on gentoo.
**''syslinux'' is needed to set up booting on the FAT file system of the USB disc or Live CD.
**''isomd5sum'' is needed for the recommended verification step, which checks that the .iso file is complete after its travels. If there is a problem with the .iso file, the script will exit and provide a failure message. The verification step can be bypassed by using the <code>--noverify</code> option.
**''cryptsetup'' is only needed for the option to provide password protection and encryption for the persistent /home/liveuser folder. It is not necessary if one applies the recommended <code>--unencrypted-home</code> option. The <code>--unencrypted-home</code> option is preferred because the reduced overhead improves robustness with the compressed ''squashfs'' file system employed by the Live USB deployment.
* Plug in a 1GB or larger USB stick into your computer.
* Download the installation script: http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh (09 April 2009)

* Check the USB device. In the example below the device is /dev/sdb:
: <tt>'''df -h'''</tt>
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 19G 7.0G 11G 40% /
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1.5G 96K 1.5G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.5G 2.9M 1.5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.5G 104K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.5G 2.0M 1.5G 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb1 996M 913M 84M 92% /mnt/myUSBdisc

* Unmount the drive,<br>
: <tt>sudo umount /dev/sd''b1''</tt>

* Then check to see that the partition is marked as bootable,<br>
: <tt>sudo fdisk '''-l'''</tt> ''<----that's a lowercase letter 'L' for the '''l'''ist option.''
You should see output that looks like this:
Disk /dev/sdb: 1047 MB, 1047265280 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 127 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0008325f
.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 127 1020096 6 FAT16
The '*' under the Boot column is what you want to see.
: If not, then
:* For Ubuntu 8.10, menu: System -> Administration -> Partition Editor (GParted).
::# Select your USB device (/dev/sd''b'' for the rest of these instructions),
::# then your partition (/dev/sd''b1''),
::# then menu: Partition -> Manage Flags,
::# check the boot box,
::# and Close to mark the partition as bootable.

:* For Fedora,
::# <tt>parted /dev/sd''b''</tt>
::# toggle 1 boot
::# quit

* Also, check to see that you do not already have an existing bootloader (such as GRUB) in the MBR of your stick. (If you have not previously used this stick as a live boot, you can skip this step.) To be sure that the USB stick's MBR is wiped clean, overwrite it completely using:
: <tt>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd''b'' bs=446 count=1</tt>
** (Actually, that didn't work for me. But this did:
**: <tt>lilo -M /dev/sd''b''</tt>
**:It put in a standard MBR that boots whichever partition has been called bootable. It does not install LILO as such.)
* Change mode to make the script executable.
: <tt>chmod +x livecd-iso-to-disk.sh</tt>
* Run it as root, making sure to pass the correct USB device and to set overlay and home size appropriately, depending on the stick size.
: <tt>sudo ./livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 160 --delete-home --unencrypted-home soas-beta.iso /dev/sd''b1''</tt>
The ''livecd-iso-to-disk'' installation has the advantage over the ''liveusb-creator'' installation method by allowing a persistent /home/liveuser folder with the <tt>--home-size-mb ''NNN''</tt> option. This feature would allow you to update the OS image while keeping the user files (by running the script against your existing installation but <u>leaving out</u> the --home-size-mb NNN option).
* The <code>--delete-home</code> option is used to avoid an error message while requesting both a new home (with <code>--home-size-mb</code>) and a persistent home (indirectly with <code>--unencrypted-home</code>). You wouldn't use the --delete-home option on an upgrade of the operation system only.
Depending on the size of your USB stick, you may have to decrease <code>--overlay-size-mb</code> and <code>--home-size-mb</code> values (example, for 1 GB stick, use 200 for each).
* If you get an error about udevinfo, you have the new version of udev where "udevadm info" is the proper command. Create an executable file called udevinfo somewhere in your path with the following contents:
#!/bin/bash
udevadm info $*
* Watch out for errors in the output of the script, the script seams to ignore them!(and say all is fine on the last line).

== What's next? ==

After you've created your stick, it's time to [[Sugar_on_a_Stick#Boot|boot your stick]] and [[Sugar on a Stick/Getting Involved | test]] it out. Please also [[Sugar on a Stick/Getting Involved/Testing | report]] your observations.

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Marketing Team/Events/MiniCamp Paris 2009/Attendees

2009-05-07T17:47:39Z

Eightdot:

{|class="schedule sortable"
! Wiki !! First Name !! Last Name !! e-mail !! Dates Attending !! Affiliation
|-
| [[User:dfarning|Dfarning]]
| David
| Farning
| dfarning at sugarlabs.org
| May 13 -20
| Sugar Labs
|-
| [[User:seth|Seth]]
| Seth
| Woodworth
| seth at sugarlabs.org
| May 15 -24
| OLPC
|-
| [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang Holt]
| Adam
| Holt
| holt at laptop.org
| May 14 - 19
| OLPC Canada
|-
| [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu]]
| Tomeu
| Vizoso
| tomeu at sugarlabs.org
| May 14 - 19
| Sugar Labs
|-
| [[User:Walter|Walter]]
| Walter
| Bender
| walter at sugarlabs.org
| May 15 - 18
| Sugar Labs
|-
| [[User:ChristophD|ChristophD]]
| Christoph
| Derndorfer
| christoph at olpcnews.com
| May 15 - 19
| OLPC Austria
|-
| [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]]
| Yama
| Ploskonka
| yama@netoso.com
| Remotely from La Paz - Bolivia
| OLE Bolivia
|-
| [[User:sascha_silbe|sascha_silbe]]
| Sascha
| Silbe
| domain sugarlabs.org, user silbe
| at least full weekend
| Sugar Labs?
|-
| [[User:CarolineM|CarolineM]]
| Caroline
| Meeks
| caroline at sugarlabs.org
| May 15th to 24th. Bringing my husband Scott but not the kid.
| Sugar on a Stick
|-
| [[User:Martin.langhoff|Martin.langhoff]]
| Martín
| Langhoff
| martin.langhoff@gmail.com
| full weekend
| OLPC
|-
| [[User:Mokurai|Edward Mokurai Cherlin]]
| Edward
| Cherlin
| echerlin@gmail.com
| Remotely from Silicon Valley
| Earth Treasury
|-
|-
| [[User:Marten|Marten Vijn]]
| Marten
| Vijn
| info at martenvijn dot nl
| 16-17 May
| Soas user / OLPC repairing centre
|-
| [[User:Reinder| Reinder]]
| Reinder
| de Haan
| rs(a)mveas(d)com
| 16-17 May
|
|-
|-
| [[User:SeanDaly|SeanDaly]]
| Sean
| Daly
| sdaly dot be at gmail dot com
| 15-17 May
| Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator
|-
|-
| [[User:Carlo|Carlo]]
| Carlo
| Falciola
| cfalciola@yahoo.it
| 16-17 May
| Localization(Italian)
|-
}

Marketing Team/Events/FOSDEM 2009

2009-02-05T15:53:43Z

Eightdot: /* Attendance */

== About ==

OLPC / Sugar Labs is present at [http://www.fosdem.org/2009/ FOSDEM'09] taking place in Brussels (Belgium) from Saturday, February 7 and Sunday, February 8.

== Pre-conference community meetup ==

In addition to FOSDEM, we're gathering on '''Friday, February 6''' at
the [http://hsb.wikidot.com/ Hacker Space Brussels] for a one-day
OLPC / Sugar community meetup.

Please add yourself to the list of attendees if you would like to
join us. Contact [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]] for further
details and directions.

=== Goals ===

* discussing the current state of things
* making plans for 2009:
** better defining the relation between OLPC and Sugar Labs
** advancing the Sugar platform
** making awesome educational content
** writing cool activities
** building and contacting relevant communities around OLPC and Sugar
** generally making it easier to contribute to OLPC and Sugar
** translating existing documentation (e.g. FlossManuals)
** writing materials geared towards how teachers can use the XO and Sugar in schools
** designing great marketing materials
** pilot projects in Europe
** create a web page that shows you OLPC enthusiasts geographically close to you
** ...
* socializing, finally being able to put faces to nicknames

=== Agenda ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
||'''Time''' || Hacker space Brussels
|-
|| 1000
|| Coffee and introduction
|-
|| 1030
||
|-
|| 1100
||
|-
|| 1200
||
|-
|| 1300
|| Lunch
|-
|| 1400
|| Sugar 0.84 development status update ([[User:Erikos|Simon Schampijer]])
|-
|| 1500
|| Sugar Labs [http://sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad BugSquad] - How to get involved ([[User:Erikos|Simon Schampijer]])
|-
|| 1600
|| Sugar 0.86 roadmap planning ([[User:Tomeu|Tomeu Vizoso]])
|-
|| 1700
||
|-
|| 1800
|| -> [http://fosdem.org/2009/beerevent FOSDEM Beer Event]
|}

== Goals | FOSDEM'09 ==

* getting more developers to work on Sugar related tasks
* gnash as a real flash replacement and activity development platform would be great and needs help!

== Attendance ==

Please sign up here if you plan to attend!
[[User:ChristophD|ChristophD]] 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Name
! Community Meetup Friday 6th
! FOSDEM Saturday 7th
! FOSDEM Sunday 8th
! Notes
! Hotel
|-
| [[User:ChristophD|ChristophD]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5
| Frederiksborg 5th-9th
|-
| [[User:niklaus|Niklaus Giger]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the at 12:30 Feb. 5
|
|-
| [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight booked, arrive Feb 6th at 10.30am and leave Feb 9th at 17:00
| Frederiksborg 6th-9th
|-
| [[User:BenjaminBerg|Benjamin Berg]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Arrives at 11:01 on Friday at Bruxelles-Midi, leaving again on Monday 17:59.
| Frederiksborg 6th-9th
|-
| [[User:Cassidy|Guillaume Desmottes]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|-
| h01ger / Holger Levsen
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|-
| [[User:nubae|David "nubae" Van Assche]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5
|
|-
| [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Flight booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb 5, leave in the morning of Feb 9
| Frederiksborg 5th-9th
|-
| [[User:Erikos|Simon Schampijer]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. the 5th and leave the evening of the 9th
| Frederiksborg 5th-9th
|-
| [[User:MartinDengler|Martin Dengler]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Arrive evening of 6th (for Beer Event); leave late evening Sunday the 8th.
| Frederiksborg 6th-8th
|-
| [[User:xardox|Don Hopkins]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Taking the train from Amsterdam. Arriving Friday, leaving Monday. Rewriting SimCity/Micropolis GUI with C++/Python/GTK/Cairo/Pango/[http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/SimCityPacMan.png PacMan].
| A little hotel by the Manneken Pis.
|-
| Greg DeKoenigsberg
| Maybe
| Yes
| Yes
| Train from AMS on Friday, in leaving Sunday night
| Novotel Brussels
|-
| Eightdot
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|}

== FOSDEM Schedule ==

What about joining sometime after 18:00 the [http://fosdem.org/2009/beerevent Friday Beer Event]?

Some Sugar hackers will meet with Rob Savoye in the GNOME dev room to work on improving flash support in Sugar, will be Saturday at 10:00 AM.

Tomeu is going to talk about [http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2009/Devroom#head-fed044e7ec0c3f61c0819739876aaa276e55c8e1 "The Sugar platform"] in the [http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2009/Devroom GNOME dev room] on Saturday 15:00.

Greg is going to talk about "Sugar and Fedora" in the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSDEM/FOSDEM2009#Speakers_in_the_Dev_Room Fedora dev room] on Saturday 17.00.

== To-Do ==

* decide if we are going to ask a sister project for a piece of a booth (we did so last year in the GNOME booth)
* lots of things...

== Swag ==

[[User:Mchua|Mchua]] is getting swag over for the conference; you folks are getting [[MarketingTeam/Stickers]] and a batch of the generic [[Business cards]].

== Comments ==

Please add relevant notes and thoughts!
[[User:ChristophD|ChristophD]] 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)