Trisquel On A Sugar Toast

Trisquel on a Sugar toast (TOAST from now on) is a live/installable iso image that can be run from a CD/DVD or be used to load a USB drive with data persistence. Some other advanced uses are described below.

also see: Community/Distributions/Trisquel

Main features Trisquel 3.0

(this section needs updating)

TOAST boot menu

• Sugar 0.86.2 with the Fructose and Honey activities.
• Built on top of Trisquel 3.0 (based on Ubuntu 9.04), making it 100% free.
• 395MB iso image for i386 PC's. An amd64 version is available, but not published as it might make distribution a little more complicated while providing almost no advantages.
• 30 languages included (English as default):
  • ar bn ca de el en es eu fa fr gl he hi it ja mg mn nb ne nl pt_PT ru si sl sq sv tr ur vi zh_CN
• Graphical boot splash with translated options menu
• Graphical USB-creator tool built in
• Sugar-style artwork

More info and screenshots can be found here: http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar

Download

trisquel-sugar_4.5.1_i686

Click link for Download ^

sugar 0.88.1 sweets

• Testing: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Community/Distributions/Trisquel#trisquel-sugar_4.5.1_i686

NEW 05/22/2011

trisquel-sugar_4.1

• Download:trisquel-sugar_4.1_i686 NEW

http://devel.trisquel.info/sugar/trisquel-sugar_4.1_i686.iso

sugar 0.88.1 sweets

trisquel-sugar_3.0

http://devel.trisquel.info/sugar/trisquel-sugar_3.0-LATEST_i686.iso

Use http://trisquel.info/en/project/issues to report bugs

Install to disk

You can use TOAST live from a removable media, or perform a permanent install as you do with any GNU/Linux distro. You can select "Install Triquel" in the main boot menu to do so. If you already started a live session, you can manually launch the installer by running "ubiquity" in the terminal activity.

dd writable 2GB USB .img

Test Version

Create USB

• Using Trisquel 4.5.1 installed to HD
• terminal:

sudo su
password

blank the 2 GB USB for minimal size on compression.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd(x)

• Startup Disk Creator

other select Trisquel-4.5.2-sugar.iso

OK

insert USB

select /dev/sdb

create USB

• remove and insert USB

NO persistence

• Create USB
• gparted

resize /dev/sdb1 to 900

Set boot flag /dev/sd(x)1

label:trisquel-live

create 2nd new partition

/dev/sd(x)2 ext4 balance (about 1000)

Set boot flag /dev/sd(x)1

/dev/sd(x)2 ext4 balance (about 1000)

label: home-rw

• exit gparted

sudo su
password
cd Desktop
dd if-/dev/sd(x) of=Trisquel_4-5-1b.img

Full Install

Image of a Full Install to a 2 GB USB (ext4 file structure)

Persistent

sweets sugar 0.88.1

Easy Duplication- about 10 minutes to write from the image.

Ready to start by registering new user's name and color

Problems

1. will not install to HD (not a live image)
2. no alternate languages available

Download

http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/Trisquel_4-5-1a-sugar.img

dd write

#(root terminal)
dd if=Trisquel_4-5-1a-sugar.img of=/dev/sd(x) bs=4k [1] 
489472+0 records in
489472+0 records out
2004877312 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 296.656 s, 6.8 MB/s

[1] (x)=your device name. type "mount" in terminal to see it

CAUTION Do not use /dev/sda

• Disregard this message if it appears:

dd: writing to /dev/sd(x)': No space left on device

The .img file is actually smaller than 2.0 GB (1.9GB) so it will work.

the critical parts of the USB image are written prior to this message appearing

(THE USB was resized in gparted. before writing to an .img)

some 2Gb USB's are smaller than the 2 GB Lexar I used.

• tested on

2 Gb Lexar Firefly USB

2 GB Verbatum Sliding cover USB (smaller)

2 GB Sandisk Cruzer micro (after removing U3 hidden partition) (smaller)

Configure a Sugar-ltsp-server

you just have to install sugar on the central server

sudo apt-get install trisquel-sugar

• LINK: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/configure-ltsp-server

Create a USB thumb drive

A Live USB thumb drive runs faster and allows the user to keep the data and settings for the next run. To get that, download the iso and burn it on a blank CD. Start a Live session with it, plug your flash drive and open the terminal activity. Run the command usb-creator and follow the instructions to configure your USB drive. If it is FAT formated (the most usual format for these units), the data on it will not be erased, and will remain accessible.

Live CD persistence

You can achieve user data persistence by loading TOAST from a handy USB drive, but you can also use a regular Live CD for that, and it will work in systems with no USB-boot capabilities. You just need to pass the "persistent" parameter to the Live CD kernel (pressing F4 in the boot menu) and have a ext2 (ext3 and 4 will work too) partition labeled "live-rw" available in any disk. It can be a USB flash drive too.

Any data in the /home directory will be stored in the live-rw partition; if you need to install a persistent file outside /home, as a config file or a program, or even install some deb packages, you just need to label the partition "casper-rw" instead. For normal Sugar, use "live-rw".

This method is useful to save space in the thumb drive for persistence data, and also because the persistence partition can be mounted and accessed from other computers. It can be used to have live persistent sessions in systems that cannot boot from USB, but this will work faster if you use the method described next.

USB load helper

Some computers -like Apple's- cannot boot an operating system from a thumb drive, and in some cases the computer is not configured to do so and the user doesn't have the privileges or knowledge to do that, and a CD is the only method for booting a system. As USB images run faster and can provide integrated persistence, you might want to use the Live CD to load just the kernel and run the live session from the faster flash drive instead. You just need to create a Live USB drive using the method described above, and boot the computer with both the CD and the USB drive inserted. Set the computer to boot from the CD, and it will load the kernel and search for USB drives to continue booting from them.

Easy virtualized images

The above methods can also be used in a virtualization application like VirtualBox or KVM. You just need to start a live session using the TOAST iso, format the virtual disk with ext3, label it "live-rw" and reboot. Since then, the virtual disk will store the persistent data. If a new TOAST iso is released, you just need to replace the image attached to your virtualization system.

SD cards support

Using a USB SD card reader you should be able to use the usb-creator tool to load the live image into a SD card. That will allow you to boot the persistent live system in a XO or netbook, or install TOAST in its hard drive. It should also work with other card formats, as long as the computer is able to boot from them.

Updating

To get the latest version of the Sugar activities, just open the updater in the user settings window. To update the Trisquel system underneath, open a terminal and run this commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

This procedure will also update the Fructose activities, and it will no interfere with the Sugar updater in any way.

Changelog

• 20091021
  • New partition layout, XO compatibility improved
  • USB-creator activity added
  • Fixes #1497
  • 35MB lighter (395MB)
• 20091020
  • Several Sugar bugfixes and updates: sugar-imageviewer v14, sugar-pippy #1058, sugar-read v76, sugar-terminal v28, sugar-toolkit #1507, sugar-turtleart v75, sugar #1373 #1476 #1506
• 20091009
  • Sugar updated to 0.86.2
• 20091002
  • Sugar updated to 0.86.1
  • olpc.fth patch included: http://trisquel.info/en/issues/please-include-bootolpcfth-ext2-bootable-parition

Trisquel 4.5 LTS-Gnome Desktop with sweets sugar 0.88.1

• Install from burned CD

Custom format: /boot ext4 800; / ext4 1100; swap 1000 (not LVM)

1. Hard Disk
2. USB 4GB or larger (use 12.00 GB for Virtualbox)
3. Virtualbox 4.0.2 running on various linux, OSX, & windows installations (xxx.iso can also be used)

Install Sugar-desktop 0.88 "SWEETS"

NEW 02/03/2011 alsroot and satellit

This is dextrose-2, thus more then just 0.88. it contains several features that still not committed to the trunk + bug fixes from 0.90+

Sugar 0.88 sweets

• Boot Install and open terminal

sudo su
cd /etc/apt
gedit sources.list (gedit opens)
add these lines to sources.list:
deb http://bazaar-download.sugarlabs.org/Trisquel%3a/4.0/Ubuntu-10.04 ./
save file; exit gedit
add bazaar gpg key: (in root terminal)
gpg --keyserver keys.sugarlabs.org --recv-keys 75BB5FDF
gpg --armor --export 75BB5FDF | apt-key add -
synaptic 
Reload Package Information [X]
Search for "sweets"
check "sweets-distribution" in Synaptic
apply
"Downloading Package Files" "Installing software"
Exit synaptic

test Results i686

sweets-distribution

67 packages download

Update with System/Administration/Update Manager

Check

• Alternative:enter "update-manager" in root sugar-terminal to get sweets updates

DL and install of .xo from ASLO works in Sugar-Browse (fixed 02/03/2011 by alsroot)

test results: missing dependencies x86_64

• NOT Working-Under Development

sweets-distribution ( would not install due to:)

browse

sweets-hulahop

image-viewer

pippy

sugar

gst-plugins-espeak

sweets-elements

sweets-pybox2d ?

New Command Names

for use in terminal etc

sweets-sugar

sweets-sugar-emulator

Install Sugar-desktop 0.90.1 "SWEETS"

• Boot Install and open terminal

sudo su
cd /etc/apt
gedit sources.list (gedit opens)
add these lines to sources.conf:
deb http://bazaar-download.sugarlabs.org/Platform/Ubuntu-10.04 ./
deb http://bazaar-download.sugarlabs.org/Distribution:/0.90/Ubuntu-10.04 ./
save file
add bazaar gpg key: (in root terminal)
gpg --keyserver keys.sugarlabs.org --recv-keys 75BB5FDF
gpg --armor --export 75BB5FDF | apt-key add -

• start System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager

Reload Package Information

search for sweets

check all SWEETS selections in Synaptic

apply

70 packages download (01/05/2011 satellit)

Suggestions

• For a full screen SUGAR on Gnome Desktop (Menu/Education/sugar)

Right click on Sugar icon and add to desktop

Right click for Properties of sugar icon on desktop:edit command line to sugar-emulator -f

close

• To download and install more applications from ASLO

Open browse application- click on "Applications" (top Right)

download and install applications from ASLO

• Sugar Desktop Full Screen

Log out and log in with "Sugar" selected on bottom gdm bar.

Cautions

Do NOT upgrade sugar-browse from sugar-browse- to sugar-browse-120 via the CP/upgrade. It will not start.

Fix: Remove browse-120 from journal then restart sugar

Known Bug:Sugar 0.90.1

http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2534#comment:1

In f1 neighborhood if you make friend the avitars are repeated so there are 2 of all of them.

Fix is to use Control Panel (Drop Down:My Settings/About Me) to change color of Avitar then restart.

Friend remains but you only have 1 set of Avitars again

References

http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/customizing-trisquel-iso

Scripts to make USB: http://devel.trisquel.info/live-usb/