Sugar on a Stick/Boot: Difference between revisions

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== Computer booting basics ==

: [[wikipedia:Booting|Booting]] is short for bootstrapping, or the process a computer goes through to load the operating system software to get the computer running on that operating system copy.

====Changing operating systems====

====Changing operating systems (temporarily)====

: Most computers have hardware (for example, central processing units, chips, disk drives, audio, video, and networking devices) that can work with other operating systems. So a Microsoft Windows computer can be booted with a different operating system, like one of the GNU/Linux variations that Sugar is built on.

:: With ''Sugar on a Stick'', computers that normally run with Windows, Mac, or another operating system, can be booted from the plug-in USB/SD device, and so, run Sugar without interfering with the hard drive or normal operation of the computer. Following shutdown of a Sugar session, the computer can be booted normally with no traces of Sugar left behind.

====Boot device recognition====

: When a computer is powered up, a short piece of software saved in the computer's [[wikipedia:firmware|firmware]] gives it instructions to look for instructions to load an operating system from one or another standard devices, such as hard disk drives or CD/DVD/USB/SD storage devices.

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:All these components must be made available to the computer in order to successfully boot into the Sugar Learning Environment.

====Installation is required first====

====Installation to a stick is required first====

:The SoaS software image can be booted, once it has been "installed", from

:* a CD-rom that has been "burned" with the .iso image,

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 == Computer booting basics ==
 : [[wikipedia:Booting|Booting]] is short for bootstrapping, or the process a computer goes through to load the operating system software to get the computer running on that operating system copy.
-====Changing operating systems====
+====Changing operating systems (temporarily)====
 : Most computers have hardware (for example, central processing units, chips, disk drives, audio, video, and networking devices) that can work with other operating systems.  So a Microsoft Windows computer can be booted with a different operating system, like one of the GNU/Linux variations that Sugar is built on.
+:: With ''Sugar on a Stick'', computers that normally run with Windows, Mac, or another operating system, can be booted from the plug-in USB/SD device, and so, run Sugar without interfering with the hard drive or normal operation of the computer.  Following shutdown of a Sugar session, the computer can be booted normally with no traces of Sugar left behind.
 ====Boot device recognition====
 : When a computer is powered up, a short piece of software saved in the computer's [[wikipedia:firmware|firmware]] gives it instructions to look for instructions to load an operating system from one or another standard devices, such as hard disk drives or CD/DVD/USB/SD storage devices.
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 :All these components must be made available to the computer in order to successfully boot into the Sugar Learning Environment.
-====Installation is required first====
+====Installation to a stick is required first====
 :The SoaS software image can be booted, once it has been "installed", from
 :* a CD-rom that has been "burned" with the .iso image,