Sugar on a Stick/Beta

SoaS Beta Testing

Sugar 0.88 beta testing is underway on a Sugar on a Stick image with Fedora 13 beta (rawhide) (see Soas Fedora image matrix).

Download and Test

• Nightly builds
• See Sugar 0.88 Testing.

SoaS Installation on USB/SD

• Use ONLY this script file to create a bootable image, http://bit.ly/livecd-iso-to-disk.

(Don't forget to chmod +x tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh after you download the script.)

• The .iso file may be burnt to a CD-ROM and booted on your PC (or mounted in a virtual machine to boot it):

Note:

• See this announcement for more information.
• To install the .iso disc image, execute the shell script as the root user in one command with arguments as follows:

sudo ./tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --overlay-size-mb 400 --delete-home --extra-kernel-args selinux=0 ./soas06.iso /dev/sd*1

• (*) be sure of your USB/SD storage device name (such as sda, sdb, etc.) and partition (such as 1, 2, etc.), yielding, for example, /dev/sdb1. Use the mount command or the partition manager to confirm it before executing the script.
• --format --reset-mbr are optional arguments for the shell script, but may be excluded to preserve the existing disc format and data. See olpc:How to Damage a FLASH Storage Device for a discussion of why you might want to try to keep your factory format on a flash storage device.
• If you do use the format and reset master boot record arguments, you'll want to specify the target device name and not a partition, that is /dev/sd* with no partition number, instead of /dev/sd*1 as in the example above used to specify an existing partition. As noted above, confirm your target disc device name—in this case, it is VERY DANGEROUS to your other discs if this is entered wrong, as the whole disc will be reformatted and a new master boot record written causing all previously written data on that disc to be lost.