VirtualBox/Preparing a disk image: Difference between revisions

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# Change the Network Attached to: Bridged Adapter (This allows for networking with the host computer.)

# Start the VM

# ~~Type you~~ name and startup Sugar.

# Enter an account name and startup Sugar.

# Open Terminal.

# su -

# parted /dev/sda

# mklabel msdos -- make partition table

# ~~mkpartfs~~ primary ext2 0 2048

# mkpart primary ext2 0 2048

# toggle 1 boot

# quit

# ~~umount~~ /dev/sda1 ~~-- (not required with soas-2-blueberry.iso)~~

# mke2fs /dev/sda1

# ~~/media/soas-2-blueberry~~/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb ~~400~~ /dev/~~sr0~~ /dev/sda1

# /LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /dev/live /dev/sda1<br>(for earlier versions of SoaS

#: (for earlier versions of SoaS~~, like Strawberry,~~ use /~~mnt~~/~~live~~/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk ~~...~~<br>~~soas05.iso carries an incompatible version of~~ livecd-iso-to-disk~~, see [http://bugs.launchpad.net/soas/+bug/417415 this bug report].~~)

#: Blueberry - use /media/soas-2-blueberry/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk<br>Strawberry - use /mnt/live/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk)

#* the --overlay-size-mb NNN ~~option~~ creates space for persistence of changes on the disk; otherwise, a liveOS disk is read-only.

#* the --overlay-size-mb NNN and --home-size-mb NNN options creates space for persistence of changes on the disk; otherwise, a liveOS disk is read-only. See [[LiveOS image]].

#: <br>The following optional parameters seem to be incompatible with soas-1-strawberry and soas-2-blueberry released versions. (The script completes successfully, but the virtual machine startup process has trouble finding the home directory and fails to complete.)

#* the --home-size-mb NNN option creates space for saving the /home/liveuser folder if you want to update the OS image while keeping the user files. (In this case, skip the new disk creation and parted steps and leave out the --home-size-mb NNN option at this step and continue on.)

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 # Change the Network Attached to: Bridged Adapter  (This allows for networking with the host computer.)
 # Start the VM
-# Type you name and startup Sugar.
+# Enter an account name and startup Sugar.
 # Open Terminal.
 # su -
 # parted /dev/sda
 # mklabel msdos -- make partition table
-# mkpartfs primary ext2 0 2048
+# mkpart primary ext2 0 2048
 # toggle 1 boot
 # quit
-# umount /dev/sda1  -- (not required with soas-2-blueberry.iso)
+# mke2fs /dev/sda1
-# /media/soas-2-blueberry/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 400 /dev/sr0 /dev/sda1
+# /LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /dev/live /dev/sda1<br>(for earlier versions of SoaS
-#: (for earlier versions of SoaS, like Strawberry, use /mnt/live/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk ...<br>soas05.iso carries an incompatible version of livecd-iso-to-disk, see [http://bugs.launchpad.net/soas/+bug/417415 this bug report].)
+#: Blueberry - use /media/soas-2-blueberry/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk<br>Strawberry - use /mnt/live/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk)
-#* the --overlay-size-mb NNN option creates space for persistence of changes on the disk; otherwise, a liveOS disk is read-only.
+#* the --overlay-size-mb NNN and --home-size-mb NNN options creates space for persistence of changes on the disk; otherwise, a liveOS disk is read-only. See [[LiveOS image]].
 #: <br>The following optional parameters seem to be incompatible with soas-1-strawberry and soas-2-blueberry released versions.  (The script completes successfully, but the virtual machine startup process has trouble finding the home directory and fails to complete.)
 #* the --home-size-mb NNN option creates space for saving the /home/liveuser folder if you want to update the OS image while keeping the user files.  (In this case, skip the new disk creation and parted steps and leave out the --home-size-mb NNN option at this step and continue on.)