Sugar on a Stick/Macintosh

Building a bootable Mac USB

(tested on a MacBook Air)

1 Boot Intel Mac

Download Soas-v4 Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS Download

Download Soas-v3 soas-3-mirabelle Download

Copy them to a USB for transfer later (see below)

2 Format a 2nd Target USB (2GB) in OSX Disk utility

Insert Target USB

start Disk Utility

highlight the target USB in left column of OSX Disk Utility

Click on erase; select fat16; Name FEDORA; hit return

3 Burn USB

Start Oracle VirtualBox for OSX VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmg Download

TO download F14: Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop Download

Start the F14 Desktop you have installed to VirtualBox

Insert USB that contains: Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso and soas-3-mirabelle.iso

Copy them to running f14-Desktop in VirtualBox

4 Start liveusb-creator (To install liveusb-creator; In Terminal:"yum install liveusb-creator)

<Browse>/Desktop/ Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso or soas-3-mirabelle.iso

<Target Device> /dev/sdb1 (FEDORA)

<Persistent Storage> choose 900 MB

<Create Live USB>

5 Shutdown Fedora 14 in VirtualBox; Close VirtualBox Program; Shutdown Mac.

6 Insert Soas-4-boot-test CD in USB DVD/CD; Plug in Live USB you just built

soas-4-boot-test Download

OR Make a rEFIt Boot CD:

Here is a simple way to recognize a bootable USB on a Mac.

Go to rEFIt (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) and make a bootable cd. "There is no need to install rEFIt on your mac. In fact installing rEFIt may make it impossible to upgrade the Mac OS to a newer version later on (personal experience, I had to do a clean install). Put the rEFIt CD[1] in and hold the option key after turning the computer on. The Mac will recognize the CD because it uses EFI and then the CD will recognize the bootable USB."[2]

[1] How to Burn a rEFIt CD (You can rename the .cdr file to .iso for use in linux.)

[2] Downloads#Apple Mac OS X

7 Boot from Soas-4-boot-test helper CD

Hold down "C" key and do not release until Fedora Blue "soas-boot" screen appears

It may take 10-15 seconds

Select "Boot with basic video driver"

Hit return

• Congratulations Your Live USB should Boot and run Sugar on a Stick from the live USB with persistence

• Notes:

1. Wireless connection does not work. Use an USB Ethernet Adapter for Internet Connectivity
2. you can eject a USB CD/DVD drive, if used (In bottom right of sugar frame) and unplug the CD/DVD USB connector from the Mac. It will not be needed until next time you boot the Live USB
3. Note Do Not try to Boot this USB outside of intel MAC with boot disk It becomes corrupted if boot is attempted as standalone Live Soas in a Netbook