Changes

* Use a larger device (4 GB or even 8 GB), if you plan to do updates or install new programs.

* Use a larger device (4 GB or even 8 GB), if you plan to do updates or install new programs.

* If you use a 1-GB device, do not (i) install large updates or activities or (ii) download large files.  The 300-MB overlay will quickly fill up (e.g., within an hour), and your device will become corrupted (i.e., unbootable) without any warning.  You may use the [[Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone|Sugar Cellar]] utility to monitor the usage of the persistent overlay. Also, check your Journal free space frequently.

* If you use a 1-GB device, do not (i) install large updates or activities or (ii) download large files.  The 300-MB overlay will quickly fill up (e.g., within an hour), and your device will become corrupted (i.e., unbootable) without any warning.  You may use the [[Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone|Sugar Cellar]] utility to monitor the usage of the persistent overlay. Also, check your Journal free space frequently.

* Use zyx-liveinstaller [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/ZyX-LiveInstaller]] for soas-v2-Blueberry or '''liveinst''' command for Fedora based installs in a terminal to make a non-live installation. It will require about 2x as large device as the file structure will not be compressed. These non-live installs are more robust in use but may have a shorter service lifetime (See [[olpc:How to Damage a FLASH Storage Device]].)

* Use zyx-liveinstaller [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/ZyX-LiveInstaller]] for soas-v2-'''Blueberry''' or '''liveinst''' command for Fedora based installs in a terminal to make a non-live installation. It will require about 2x as large device as the file structure will not be compressed. These non-live installs are more robust in use but may have a shorter service lifetime (See [[olpc:How to Damage a FLASH Storage Device]].)

* Fedora 13-based SoaS-Mirabelle will install with either '''liveinst''' (Anaconda) or '''zyx-liveinstaller ''' '''Download Instructions'''[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry#zyx-liveinstaller_Instructions_for_Mirabelle_f13] Hint:you can also use: livecd-iso-to-disk or liveusb-creator to create the device.

* Fedora 13-based SoaS-'''Mirabelle''' will install with either '''liveinst''' (Anaconda) or '''zyx-liveinstaller ''' Download Instructions: [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry#zyx-liveinstaller_Instructions_for_Mirabelle_f13] Hint:you can also use: '''livecd-iso-to-disk''' [http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh] or '''liveusb-creator''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Live_USB_creator] [https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/#Download]  to create the device.

* notes on ext3 / ext4 file systems:[http://lwn.net/Articles/322823/] (It looks like ext3 formatting may be more robust.)

* notes on ext3 / ext4 file systems:[http://lwn.net/Articles/322823/] (It looks like ext3 formatting may be more robust.)

* Discussion on causes of failure [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Stick_Layout] delayed writes [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Stick_Layout]

* Discussion on causes of failure [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Stick_Layout] delayed writes [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Stick_Layout]