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==SoaS Release Testing==
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==SoaS nightly builds==
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Sugar 0.88 release testing is underway on a Sugar on a Stick image with Fedora 13 (Goddard).
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[https://www.happyassassin.net/nightlies.html Fedora nightly-composes page] - Look for the '''SoaS live''' section well down in the table.
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==Download and test==
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* See [[Fedora 35]], [[Testing/Reports/Sugar on a Stick]] for testing results.
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* [[File:Soas-mirabelle-logo.png|120px|link=http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/]] ''Mirabelle'' [http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/ Nightly builds]
 
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* See [[Sugar on a Stick/Mirabelle]]
 
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* [[0.88/Testing|Sugar 0.88 Testing]].
 
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==SoaS installation on USB/SD devices==
 
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===with Linux===
 
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* Use this script file to create a bootable image, http://bit.ly/livecd-iso-to-disk.
 
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:(Don't forget to <code>chmod +x tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh</code> after you download the script.)
 
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* The .iso file may be burnt to a CD-ROM and booted on your PC (or mounted in a virtual machine to boot it).
 
  
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'''Note:'''
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==Install, test, report==
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To install the .iso disc image, execute the shell script as the root user in <u>one</u> command with arguments as follows:
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* See [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation]]
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**Note that with larger images one may need to adjust the overlay or home folder size in order to fit the installation onto a 1-GB USB device (for example, with soas-x86_64-20101004.16.iso (503 MB), {{Code|--home-size-mb 190}} was needed), otherwise, the filesystem will get corrupted during the creation of the home folder as the disc space is exhausted.
  
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{{Code|./livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /path/to/source.iso /dev/sd'''?'''1}}
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* [[0.112/Testing|Sugar 0.112 Testing]]
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* [[Sugar on a Stick QA]]
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* [[Sugar on a Stick/Bugs]]
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* [[BugSquad/Bug Report]]
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: where '{{Code|'''?'''}}' in the final parameter represents the target bootable device node, such as {{Code|sdb1}} or {{Code|sdc1}}, etc.
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Let's simplify the base instructions and leave this sort of information on a troubleshooting page.
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: (You may use '\' line-continuation symbols followed by a newline [enter or return keypress] to break a long line visually on the terminal, but not logically to the script processing software.)
 
  
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:* (*) ''be sure of your USB/SD '''s'''torage '''d'''evice name (such as sda, sdb, etc.) and partition (such as 1, 2, etc.), yielding, for example,'' <code>/dev/sdb1</code>. ''Use the mount command or the partition manager to confirm it before executing the script.''
 
 
:* <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.  
 
:* <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.  
 
:*: [[Talk:Downloads]] and [[LiveOS image]] have more information on this and other installation options.
 
:*: [[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*</code> with no partition number, instead of <code>/dev/sd*1</code> 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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:* 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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===with Microsoft Windows===
 
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In Microsoft Windows, one may use the '''Fedora Live USB Creator''' from [http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/#Download FedoraHosted here], (but one will not have the full [[LiveOS image|optimization]] of data storage allowed by installing a separate, persistent home directory).
 
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* Plug a blank target USB flash drive (or SD Card) into your computer (1 GB or greater).  (See [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Live_USB#Cautions_with_using_Live_USB.27s Cautions with using Live USB] regarding flash drive size.)
 
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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 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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See and adapt the instructions at [[Sugar on a Stick/Mac]].
 

Latest revision as of 20:17, 15 June 2021


SoaS nightly builds

Fedora nightly-composes page - Look for the SoaS live section well down in the table.

Install, test, report

  • See Sugar on a Stick/Installation
    • Note that with larger images one may need to adjust the overlay or home folder size in order to fit the installation onto a 1-GB USB device (for example, with soas-x86_64-20101004.16.iso (503 MB), --home-size-mb 190 was needed), otherwise, the filesystem will get corrupted during the creation of the home folder as the disc space is exhausted.
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