Macintosh/Live CD

Restart, Play. Restart, Mac.

Get a hands on experience with Sugar by booting from a CD. Restart and return to your Mac, completely unchanged. This is the easiest way to get a Taste of Sugar on a Mac.

To Get Started choose your flavor:

• intel processor
• powerPC processor

Click to discover the processor at the heart of your Mac.

To Download
Download a LiveOS image.

Verify the file was downloaded properly by calculating its SHA-1 checksum
For protection against tampering and transmission errors, always compare the checksum of each download.

To calculate a file's SHA-1 checksum
Open the Terminal Utility and type into the Terminal Window. Press the return key to run the command.
Replace mySugarFlavor with the name of the file you downloaded.

• Mac OS version ≥10.6
  shasum ~/Downloads/mySugarFlavor.iso
• Mac OS version ≤10.5
  openssl sha1 ~/Downloads/mySugarFlavor.iso
• Compare the result to the official SHA-1 checksum stored at Sugar Labs.
  
  

To burn onto CD

• Open the Disk Utility. Drag the downloaded .iso file to the bottom of the list.
• Select your flavor .iso in the list, then press the Burn button.
• Insert a blank CD disc when prompted.

The CD created is bootable in most PCs including Intel Mac. Please burn many copies and share them freely.

To try a Taste of Sugar

• Insert the CD you burned.
• Press the Power Button on the Intel Mac. If a dialog box appears, press the Restart Button.
• During the startup sound, press and hold the letter C.
  If the apple logo appears, Sugar is not booting. Restart and try again.
  • the C key must be pressed during the startup sound and you must continue to hold it down.
  • you may release the c key once the Sugar logo appears.

A Taste of Sugar is a safe read-only experience that doesn't write or remember anything. Unfortunately, this means the Journal is not saved. Nothing is saved. All learner progress is lost when the machine reboots. A Taste of Sugar is only a demonstration and is not intended to be used on a recurring basis. See Sugar_on_a_Mac to install Sugar for a learner.