Sugar on a Stick/ZyX-LiveInstaller

ZyX-LiveInstaller

• ZyX-LiveInstaller allows you to install SoaS when it is already running from either a LiveUSB device or LiveCD media to a system or external disk. This results in what is considered a traditional operating system installation on disk (or USB-Stick/SD-Card).

• note: this is *not* a method to create a SugarOnAStick (LiveUSB). Though you can install to an external usb drive/stick, resulting in an installation that very similarly boots your system to the Sugar UI. The difference is that the resulting system is not a 'Live' system. This means that it uses a normal filesystem, instead of a compressed read-only filesystem with a read-write snapshot/overlay above, as a 'LiveUSB' does.

• IMPORTANT WARNING: understand that this is a fairly new piece of open source software, that will overwrite entire partitions or disks ** as well as your bootloader ** during installation. In this release of SoaS, it is intended only for users that are familiar with the risks and possible complications of installing a Linux distribution to system disk.

• To use

• boot your SugarOnAStick
• start the terminal activity, type in lowercase 'zyx-liveinstaller', then press enter.
• start the partitioner 'gparted' if necessary

• you will need at least a single partition for the root filesystem, that is greater than 2GB. Some disks labeled and sold as 2GB may not be quite large enough.
• optionally create a seperate partition for the /boot filesystem, at least 42MB in size
• optionally create a seperate partition for swap space, typically 1 or 2 times the size of ram in your system. This will allow the use of hibernation (suspend-to-disk, via pm-hibernate command run from root terminal shell).
• note: formatting in the partitioner is not required.
• exit the partitioner by hitting the X in the top corner of window.

• read and follow the simple wizard, choosing destination volumes/partitions for boot, root, and swap. ( swap is optional).

• This is a *destructive* install, meaning that the contents of the disks or partitions you choose will be overwritten entirely.
• During installation, you are free to use other activities.
• After installation completes, you may remove the LiveUSB or LiveCD, and continue using the newly installed system - without rebooting!!!. This means that anything done with the system before, during, or after installation persists into the installed system.
• For more information, see the upstream project website [1]