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How to make a SoaS.img file for repeated installs to 4 GB USB's
updated 01/19/;2013
- These are full installs of Sugar-Desktop
- This is a workaround for the fact that f18 SoaS live.iso's do not install to USB or HD with "liveinst"
- This procedure yields fully installed ext4 filesystem on / (root) of the USB
write dd 4 GB USB with netinstall
- Download
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso
- Write netinstall USB
dd if=Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=2M
Boot netinstall USB
- Tutorial describes features of the f18 anaconda installer
- Wait for Download and error checking of default software to finish
Installation Destination
select 2nd 4 GB USB (not the one you booted from) [continue] Select the Partitioning type first Partition scheme: Standard Partition [+]"I don't not need help: Let me customize disk partitioning" add partition: / 3.6 GB [Reclaim space]
Software selection
- select sugar-desktop from left list (scroll down if necessary)
- [Back]
- Finish install as shown in tutorial
Make a USB .img file of USB prior to running it
- (firstboot will not have been run)
dd if=/dev/sdc of=Soas_8.img bs=2M [root@localhost Desktop]# dd if=/dev/sdc of=Soas_8.img bs=2M 1912+0 records in 1912+0 records out 4009754624 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 207.237 s, 19.3 MB/s [root@localhost Desktop]#
Alternative: Download a prebuilt USB.img
Download a Soas_8.img file
- For a 4 GB USB
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8.img 3.7G
- Full netinstall of Sugar-desktop to a ext4 / on 4 Gb USB
Download a Soas_8_litd.img file
- For a 2 GB USB
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8_litd.img 1.9G
- Built with livecd-iso-to-disk
- Transcript: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Li-t-d-Soas-8.txt
- persistence - overlay 500 mb /home 500 mb
- This will not be as rugged as the above 4 GB .img and will fill up eventually
- Persistence tested after download and dd write to another USB 01/20/2013 tg
Write to new USB
- This command can be repeated for multiple USB's
- In root terminal:
dd if=Soas_8.img of=/dev/sd(x)* bs=2M
- or
dd if=Soas_8_litd.img of=/dev/sd(x)* bs=2M
- of=/dev/sd(x)* = find USB device name with "mount" command
Examples
- Successful copy
[root@localhost Desktop]# dd if=Soas_8.img of=/dev/sdc bs=2M 1912+0 records in 1912+0 records out 4009754624 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 587.133 s, 6.8 MB/s [root@localhost Desktop]#
Repeat this command for each new SoaS USB
- NOTE: You can use gparted to shrink the ext4 partition on the USB
yum install gparted
- This will allow use of smaller 4 GB USB's
- Case of using a smaller 4 GB USB Successful in spite of error message
- This seems to be true in tests on smaller 4 GB USB's
dd: writing ‘/dev/sdc’: No space left on device 1851+0 records in 1850+0 records out 3880452096 bytes (3.9 GB) copied, 676.209 s, 5.7 MB/s [root@localhost Desktop]#