Sugar on a Stick/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. If you need a dual boot configuration, you will need to configure grub yourself (at least for the current version).

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 root, boot, and swap.

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]

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