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• Sugar on a Stick/Goals
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Use Cases

This is a list of ways we'll support Soas installation and their status. TODO: replace with a flow chart!

Sugar:

1. From a hard disk:
   1. Local booting with storage - implemented via various distros
   2. Local booting with external storage - unimplemented, students would insert their SoaS stick and it would load their data off it and optionally update their stick's software to the latest image
2. On a stick:
   1. Mobile booting using USB Boot support in BIOS - implemented
   2. Mobile booting using ISO helper CDs - implemented
   3. Mobile emulation - unimplemented
   4. Combination of booting and emulation - unimplemented
      1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware (VMPlayer and Appliance on one 8GB bootable stick, or a 4 GB Boot stick and a 4 GB stick with the Appliance) works but is complicated

Waiting for Fedora 11 to allow VMPlayer installation, this work around uses Ubuntu 9.04 boot stick with VMPlayer

Install Methods

1. Windows/Mac/Linux
   1. LiveUSB creator script - implemented
2. Windows
   1. SoaS-emu - installer for a soas appliance on the local machine - work in progress
   2. MokaFive portable player installer - investigating
3. Other
   1. LiveCD which creates USB sticks - idea

More Information

• SoaS Desktop Manager Sugar_on_a_Stick/sdm
• For a testing drawing space, check this.
• SoaS Gitorious home - Tools to build Sugar on a Stick images.

Home View Design

See this page for ideas about the Home View design.

Initial Home View Activities

Discussion of which Activities should be visible on initial display of the Home view is appropriate here. See this sugar-devel thread for the background.