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==SoaS Release Testing==
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==SoaS nightly builds==
Sugar 0.88 release testing is underway with Sugar on a Stick Mirabelle 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.
==Download and test==
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* See [[Fedora 35]], [[Testing/Reports/Sugar on a Stick]] for testing results.
* [[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]
 
* See [[Sugar on a Stick/Mirabelle]]
 
* [[0.88/Testing|Sugar 0.88 Testing]].
 
  
==SoaS installation on USB/SD devices==
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==Install, test, report==
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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.
  
===with Microsoft Windows===
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* [[0.112/Testing|Sugar 0.112 Testing]]
* Either use '''Fedora Live USB Creator'''
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* [[Sugar on a Stick QA]]
*# Download the Live USB Creator from [http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/#Download FedoraHosted here].
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* [[Sugar on a Stick/Bugs]]
*# 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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* [[BugSquad/Bug Report]]
*# 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.
 
*# Adjust the Persistent Storage slider. This enables you to save changes to the system and additional Sugar Activities onto the device.
 
*# Select your flash drive as the target, and click the '''Create Live USB''' button.
 
*# Wait for the process to finish, then close the Live USB Creator program.
 
*# Stop your flash drive using the '''Safely Remove Hardware''' dialog, and eject it.
 
:'''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.
 
* or '''Burn a CD-ROM disc''' with the soas-mirabelle.iso file.
 
*# 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.
 
*# 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.)
 
*# 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.
 
*# 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}}
 
*# 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.
 
*# Change the working directory to {{Code|/mnt/live/LiveOS/}} or {{Code|/LiveOS/}} (depending on a pending image configuration).<br>{{Code|cd /LiveOS/}}
 
*# 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}}
 
:: ''Be certain of your USB/SD '''s'''torage '''d'''evice 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.''
 
:'''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.
 
* or '''Launch a virtual machine''', such as VirtualBox with the soas-mirabelle.iso file.
 
*: See [[#SoaS on VirtualBox|SoaS on VirtualBox]] below.
 
===with Apple Macintosh===
 
* See and adapt the instructions at [[Sugar on a Stick/Mac]].
 
===with GNU/Linux===
 
<ol start="0">
 
<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>
 
<li>Execute, as the root user, in <u>one</u> command with arguments, the following:<br>
 
{{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>
 
: where '{{Code|'''?'''}}' in the final parameter represents the target bootable device node, such as {{Code|sdb1}} or {{Code|sdc1}}, etc.<br>
 
''Be certain of your USB/SD '''s'''torage '''d'''evice node name (such as sda, sdb, etc.) and partition (such as 1, 2, etc.).<br>
 
: Use the {{Code|df -Th}} command to confirm your devices before executing the script.
 
</li></ol>
 
{{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
 
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 
/dev/sda1    ext4    18G  6.6G  11G  38% /
 
tmpfs        tmpfs    1.6G  740K  1.6G  1% /dev/shm
 
/dev/sdc1    vfat    15G  697M  15G  5% /media/SANDY
 
/dev/sdb1    vfat    15G  2.0G  13G  14% /media/TOSHIBA
 
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:: where the mount point and filesystem sizes should help you identify what you want.
 
 
 
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[root@MyComputer ~]#
 
./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
 
 
 
Verifying image...
 
/mnt/VMs/soas-x86_64-20100509.09.iso:  7c5f3227e4d87bb03f1cf89415ee80ce
 
Fragment sums: b68ffc49a1213bca823fd5f16887291c571b44d55755488b3c229dafb631
 
Fragment count: 20
 
Checking: 100.0%
 
 
 
The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
 
 
 
It is OK to use this media.
 
 
 
Copying live image to USB stick
 
Updating boot config file
 
Initializing persistent overlay file
 
200+0 records in
 
200+0 records out
 
209715200 bytes (210 MB) copied, 16.6121 s, 12.6 MB/s
 
Initializing persistent /home
 
200+0 records in
 
200+0 records out
 
209715200 bytes (210 MB) copied, 15.2779 s, 13.7 MB/s
 
Formatting unencrypted /home
 
mke2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
 
Filesystem label=
 
OS type: Linux
 
Block size=1024 (log=0)
 
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
 
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
 
51200 inodes, 204800 blocks
 
10240 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
 
First data block=1
 
Maximum filesystem blocks=67371008
 
25 block groups
 
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
 
2048 inodes per group
 
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
 
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729
 
 
 
Writing inode tables: done                           
 
Creating journal (4096 blocks): done
 
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
 
 
 
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 23 mounts or
 
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
 
tune2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
 
Setting maximal mount count to -1
 
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
 
Installing boot loader
 
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.
 
Let's simplify the base instructions and leave this sort of information on a troubleshooting page.
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:*: [[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.
 
:* 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.''  -->
 
:* 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.''  -->
==SoaS on VirtualBox==
 
{{Transclude|VirtualBox|note=&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;See instructions from the [[VirtualBox]] page (transcluded here): |collapsed=collapsed}}
 

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.