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[[Category:Sugar on a Stick]]
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[[Category:Live USB]]
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==SoaS installation on USB/SD devices==
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===with Microsoft Windows===
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* Either use '''Fedora Live USB Creator'''
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*# Download the Live USB Creator from [http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/#Download FedoraHosted here].
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*# Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card) with 1 GB or more of free space into your computer. (See [[LiveOS image]] and [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation/Variations#Cautions with using Live USB devices|Cautions with using Live USB devices]] regarding flash drive size and usage.)
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*# Launch Live USB Creator.
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*# Select the 'Browse' button to 'Use existing Live CD' and find the downloaded .iso file image on your system.
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*# Adjust the Persistent Storage slider. This enables you to save changes to the system and additional Sugar Activities onto the device.
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*# Select your flash drive as the target, and click the '''Create Live USB''' button.
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*# Wait for the process to finish, then close the Live USB Creator program.
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*# Stop your flash drive using the '''Safely Remove Hardware''' dialog, and eject it.
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:'''Note:''' The above installation method does not allow the full [[LiveOS image|optimization]] of data storage that comes from installing a separate, persistent home directory&mdash;see the alternate method below.
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* or '''Burn a CD-ROM disc''' with the soas-mirabelle.iso file.
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*# Use [http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2009/04/13/burn-iso-images-natively-in-windows-7.aspx Windows 7 built-in Disk Image Burner] or a free utility, like [http://www.imgburn.com/ ImgBurn], to write the downloaded SoaS.iso file onto a blank CD.
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*# Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card) with 1 GB or more of free space into your computer. (See [[LiveOS image]] and [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation/Variations#Cautions with using Live USB devices|Cautions with using Live USB devices]] regarding flash drive size and usage.)
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*# Boot your computer with the CD-ROM disc.  You probably need to press F1, F12, Esc, or a similar key as the computer starts up to adjust the boot source to the CD-ROM device.
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*# A successful boot will take you into ''Sugar on a Stick Mirabelle''.  From there, open the Terminal Activity, [[File:Activity-terminal.png|bottom|link=http://en.flossmanuals.net/terminal]], from the Home view.<br>{{Iframe|[http://en.flossmanuals.net/terminal ''See the Terminal Activity manual.''] |http://en.flossmanuals.net/terminal|900|400|1}}
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*# Click the 'Become root' icon, [[File:Activity-become-root.svg|40px|bottom|link=http://en.flossmanuals.net/terminal]], to gain administrative permissions in the Terminal session.
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*# Change the working directory to {{Code|/LiveOS/}}<br>{{Code|cd /LiveOS/}}
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*# execute the Linux command line:<br>{{Code|./livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /dev/live /dev/sd'''?'''1}}
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:: ''Be certain of your USB/SD '''s'''csi '''d'''rive node name (such as sda, sdb, etc.) and partition (such as 1, 2, etc.), yielding, for example,'' {{Code|/dev/sdb1}}. ''Use the mount command to confirm it before executing the script.''
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:'''Note:''' Every ''[[Sugar on a Stick/Mirabelle|Mirabelle]] or [[Sugar on a Stick/Strawberry|Strawberry]] Sugar on a Stick'' can copy its original installation to another USB stick or SD card by following the above instructions.  See [[Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone]] for instructions on how to customize the contents of a Sugar on a Stick device.
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* or '''Launch a virtual machine''', such as VirtualBox with the soas-mirabelle.iso file.
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*: See [[#SoaS on VirtualBox|SoaS on VirtualBox]] below.
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===with Apple Macintosh===
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* See and adapt the instructions at [[Sugar on a Stick/Mac]].
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===with GNU/Linux===
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<li>Use this script file http://bit.ly/livecd-iso-to-disk to create a bootable image.<br>(Run {{Code|chmod +x livecd-iso-to-disk.sh}} after you download the script to make it executable.)</li>
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<li>Execute, as the root user, in <u>one</u> command with arguments, the following:<br>
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{{Code|./livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /path/to/source.iso /dev/sd'''?'''1}}<br>
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: where '{{Code|'''?'''}}' in the final parameter represents the target bootable device node, such as {{Code|sdb1}} or {{Code|sdc1}}, etc.<br>
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''Be certain of your USB/SD '''s'''csi '''d'''rive node name (such as sda, sdb, etc.) and partition (such as 1, 2, etc.).<br>
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: Use the {{Code|df -Th}} command to confirm your devices before executing the script.
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</li></ol>
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{{Show|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You should see something like the following:
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[root@MyComputer ~]# df -Th
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Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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/dev/sda1    ext4    18G  6.6G  11G  38% /
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tmpfs        tmpfs    1.6G  740K  1.6G  1% /dev/shm
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/dev/sdc1    vfat    15G  697M  15G  5% /media/SANDY
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/dev/sdb1    vfat    15G  2.0G  13G  14% /media/TOSHIBA
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</pre>
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:: where the mount point and filesystem sizes should help you identify what you want.
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<pre>
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[root@MyComputer ~]#
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./livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /mnt/VMs/soas-x86_64-20100509.09.iso /dev/sdb1
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Verifying image...
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/mnt/VMs/soas-x86_64-20100509.09.iso:  7c5f3227e4d87bb03f1cf89415ee80ce
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Fragment sums: b68ffc49a1213bca823fd5f16887291c571b44d55755488b3c229dafb631
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Fragment count: 20
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Checking: 100.0%
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The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
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It is OK to use this media.
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Copying live image to USB stick
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Updating boot config file
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Initializing persistent overlay file
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200+0 records in
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200+0 records out
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209715200 bytes (210 MB) copied, 16.6121 s, 12.6 MB/s
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Initializing persistent /home
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200+0 records in
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200+0 records out
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209715200 bytes (210 MB) copied, 15.2779 s, 13.7 MB/s
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Formatting unencrypted /home
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mke2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
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Filesystem label=
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OS type: Linux
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Block size=1024 (log=0)
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Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
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Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
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51200 inodes, 204800 blocks
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10240 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
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First data block=1
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Maximum filesystem blocks=67371008
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25 block groups
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8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
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2048 inodes per group
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Superblock backups stored on blocks:
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8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729
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Writing inode tables: done                           
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Creating journal (4096 blocks): done
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Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
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This filesystem will be automatically checked every 23 mounts or
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180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
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tune2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
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Setting maximal mount count to -1
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Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
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Installing boot loader
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USB stick set up as live image!
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Let's simplify the base instructions and leave this sort of information on a troubleshooting page.
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:* <code>--format --reset-mbr</code> are optional arguments for the shell script, but may be excluded to preserve the existing disc format and data.  See [[olpc:How to Damage a FLASH Storage Device]] for a discussion of why you might want to try to keep your factory format on a flash storage device.
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:*: [[Talk:Downloads]] and [[LiveOS image]] have more information on this and other installation options.
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:* If you do use the format and reset master boot record arguments, you'll want to specify the target device name and not a partition, that is {{Code|/dev/sd'''?'''}} with no partition number, instead of {{Code|/dev/sd'''?'''1}} as in the example above used to specify an existing partition. ''As noted above, confirm your target disc device name&mdash;in this case, it is VERY DANGEROUS to your other discs if this is entered wrong, as the whole disc will be reformatted and a new master boot record written causing all previously written data on that disc to be lost.''  -->
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==SoaS on VirtualBox==
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{{Transclude|VirtualBox|note=&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;See instructions from the [[VirtualBox]] page (transcluded here): |collapsed=collapsed}}
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== Backup and Restore ==
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Some backup and restore options for Sugar on a Stick include the following:
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* [[olpc:School Server]] - requires a server installation.
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* [[Sugar on a Stick/deja-dup]]
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* [[Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone]]
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