Sugar on a Stick/Beta

SoaS Release Testing

Sugar 0.88 release testing is underway with Sugar on a Stick Mirabelle with Fedora 13 (Goddard).

Download and test

• Mirabelle Nightly builds
• See Sugar on a Stick/Mirabelle
• Sugar 0.88 Testing.

SoaS installation on USB/SD devices

with Linux

• Use this script file to create a bootable image, http://bit.ly/livecd-iso-to-disk.

(Run chmod +x livecd-iso-to-disk.sh after you download the script to make it executable.)

• The .iso file may be burnt to a CD-ROM and booted on your PC (or mounted in a virtual machine to boot it).

Note: To install the .iso disc image, execute the shell script as the root user in one command with arguments as follows:

./livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /path/to/source.iso /dev/sd?1

where '?' in the final parameter represents the target bootable device node, such as sdb1 or sdc1, etc.

• Be certain of your USB/SD storage device name (such as sda, sdb, etc.) and partition (such as 1, 2, etc.), yielding, for example, /dev/sdb1. Use the mount command or the partition manager to confirm it before executing the script.

with Microsoft Windows

• Either use Fedora Live USB Creator
  1. Download the Live USB Creator from FedoraHosted here.
  2. Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card) with 1 GB or more of free space into your computer. (See LiveOS image and Cautions with using Live USB devices regarding flash drive size and usage.)
  3. Launch Live USB Creator.
  4. Select the 'Browse' button to 'Use existing Live CD' and find the downloaded .iso file image on your system.
  5. Adjust the Persistent Storage slider. This enables you to save changes to the system and additional Sugar Activities onto the device.
  6. Select your flash drive as the target, and click the Create Live USB button.
  7. Wait for the process to finish, then close the Live USB Creator program.
  8. Stop your flash drive using the Safely Remove Hardware dialog, and eject it.

Note: The above installation method does not allow the full optimization of data storage that comes from installing a separate, persistent home directory—see the alternate method below.

• or Burn a CD-ROM disc with the soas-mirabelle.iso file.
  1. Use Windows 7 built-in Disk Image Burner or a free utility, like ImgBurn, to write the downloaded SoaS.iso file onto a blank CD.
  2. Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card) with 1 GB or more of free space into your computer. (See LiveOS image and Cautions with using Live USB devices regarding flash drive size and usage.)
  3. 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.
  4. A successful boot will take you into Sugar on a Stick Mirabelle. From there, open the Terminal Activity, , from the Home view.
     
     See the Terminal Activity manual.
  5. Click the 'Become root' icon, , to gain administrative permissions in the Terminal session.
  6. Change the working directory to /mnt/live/LiveOS/ or /LiveOS/ (depending on a pending image configuration).
     cd /LiveOS/
  7. execute the Linux command line:
     ./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 storage device name (such as sda, sdb, etc.) and partition (such as 1, 2, etc.), yielding, for example, /dev/sdb1. Use the mount command to confirm it before executing the script.

Note: Every Mirabelle or 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.

with Apple Macintosh

• See and adapt the instructions at Sugar on a Stick/Mac.