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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
      • 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 workaround 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 - works in SoaS Strawberry
      1. Insert the target USB storage device into your computer,
      2. Boot from a CD-ROM burnt with the soas-strawberry.iso image,
      3. Launch Terminal,
      4. Switch to the root user, su -l
      5. Unmount the USB device, umount /dev/sdb1
      6. Install the live image to the USB device by executing the following, single command with arguments:
        /mnt/live/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --noverify --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 160 --unencrypted-home --delete-home /dev/sr0 /dev/sdb1
        Note: If you have more than 1 hard disc or USB device, you should verify the name of the USB storage device by reviewing the output of the mount command before step 5 above.
    2. zyx-liveinstaller (in terminal) in soas02 to make USB from running CD "works in latest iso"
    3. dd install to usb with F12 dual mode .iso "works but no persistence"
    4. LiveCD which boots to live user and autostarts VMPlayer (installed in CD sqfs) then Students can sequentially insert their USB Stick and work on same PC - "idea" [satellit 07/05/2009]

More Information

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.

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