Talk:Sugar on a Stick/Windows

Introduction

Can someone explain a little more in the intro as to how sugar on a stick will work with a windows machine? Do you boot on it? Is it some sort of virtual machine? Is SoaS for windows a linux OS? Harriska2

See ideas emerging on this topic at Sugar on a Stick/Roadmap#Use cases --FGrose 19:06, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

putting sugar around a stick (with fedora's help)

Hi,

just a heads up about where we are regarding installation of Soas:

- on Windows we are very well, it's reported that liveusb-creator works well even for XOs,

- on Linux, latest releases of liveusb-creator weren't working at all, but people are working to fix that on Fedora 10 (thanks Kushal!). On other distros, seems like recent Liveusb-creator won't work due to new dependencies included :(

- about livecd-iso-to-disk.sh on all linux flavors, it isn't working currently for Soas2 because Rawhide requires that a more recent version of syslinux (3.73) is installed (http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/643). The good news is that we have a workaround (thanks Elena!).

- also, livecd-iso-to-disk.sh will fail to install correctly an image that can boot on XOs because of http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/644 . It has been reported upstream.

- and also, livecd-iso-to-disk.sh will fail to install correctly an image that can boot on XOs because it seems to require reading a squashfs image in a format that only very recent kernels (2.6.29) can read. No idea what we can do here, but maybe we don't really need to read that image from the computer that makes the installation? Otherwise, how can liveusb-creator do the installation for XOs on windows?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Tomeu (26 March 2009)