Sugar Creation Kit
Sugar Creation Kit DVD
A complete DVD containing all the resources required to create all 3 versions of Sugar-on-a-Stick without requiring Internet access.
- SugarCreationKit-123.iso Caution, this is a large file, at 3.8 GB
- SugarCreationKit-123.md5
- List of Contents
Uses:
- "sneakernet" or behind firewall at school.
- save bandwidth on servers.
- download once and distribute copies locally.
Get Sugar
Chat room Help
- Join Sugar chat room for Help in English
- Sugar chat room in Español (with translations to English)
Pida ayuda a través de este canal #sugar-es Por favor, sea cortés y hacer sus preguntas. Los voluntarios no pueden estar en línea todo el tiempo. Sea paciente y permanecer conectado durante varios minutos para ver su respuest
- (utilizar la función de meeting para la traducción de estos artículos)
- Ask for help on these IRC channels by clicking on either of the above links (English or Spanish)
- Please be courteous and ask your questions.
- Volunteers may not be on line all of the time. Be patient and stay connected for several minutes to see their answer.
- Read the Floss Manuals first!
Communication channels
- Mailing Lists; IRC; Blogs; Forums; Jabber Networks; Video; Contacts; Mail.
Community Distributions
- Linux distributions where sugar is used
- Trisquel Tris 4.0 Ubuntu 10.04LTS; Tris 4.5 Ubuntu 10.10; Sugar sweets 0.88.1 or 0.90.1
- Mandriva 2010.2 mandriva sugar 0.88.0
- Debian Debian 6 Sugar 0.88.1
- Linux Mint Debian Debian 6 Sugar 0.88.1
- Linux Caixa Magica based on mandriva 2010.1 repositories sugar 0.88.0
- Ubuntu Sugar sweets 0.88.1 or 0.90.1
- OpenSUSE
ON-LINE VERSION
- An expanded and enhanced listing of Items Included in the SugarCreationKit DVD ver 1.2.3 (see Above)
- NOTE: There are newer and additional items on this web page that are not in the SCK DVD.iso
Use to Download the elements you need and burn to your own DVD to save Downloading all of the above SCK DVD.iso
- Look below to the References section to see how to then convert your customized DVD to an .iso
- (revised 12/20/2010) satellit
Introduction
Sugar on a Stick (READ THIS FIRST) - AN Introduction to Sugar on a Stick
Cautions with using Live USB's.pdf
How to Make a live USB.pdf:
- (instructions on how to make a live USB in Windows, GNU/Linux, and Intel Mac's) Sugar on a Stick/Installation#with Microsoft Windows
- WINDOWS: Sugar on a Stick/Windows
How to use Sugar on a Stick
Hardware Compatibility
Soas v4 Mango Lassi
- (The current version of Sugar on a Stick)
- (Burn the .iso to a CD and Boot with the resulting CD)
- Activities Compatible with Mango Lassi & Mirabelle
- Editable Listing of Activity Compatibility Features/Soas_V4/ASLOxo Activity Test Table Please Use this wiki page to report your findings
SoaS v3 Mirabelle
- (Burn the .iso to a CD and Boot with the resulting CD)
Index of Sugar Labs Archive
- click above link ^
ASLOxo-5.iso
- click above link ^
- New: Updated activities through 02/08/2011 (satellit )
- ASLOxo-5.iso 1.3 GB (DVD)
- View: Contents_of_ASLOxo-5-iso.txt 8.5K
- These can be copied to a 2-GB USB device and drag-dropped into the Sugar Journal to install them.
Activities
- click above link ^
- listing: Activities Descriptions and Developer Pages
- OLPC listings: Activities
- Recursos_en_espanol Los siguientes recursos han sido creados por personal de distintos deployments de America Latina y otros colaboradores.
Mirabelle DVD covers and artwork
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabelle_plum
- Mirabelle Plums,txt (http://www.flickr.com/photos/enil/3892066169/)
CD labels to print
- sugarlabs_SoaS-Creation-Kit_avery_cd_label_2up.pdf http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugarlabs_SoaS-Creation-Kit_avery_cd_label_2up_Mirabelle.pdf
- sugarlabs_Sugar-demo_avery_cd_label_2up.pdf http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugarlabs_Sugar-demo_avery_cd_label_2up_Mirabelle.pdf
- Flyer_englisch.pdf *http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Flyer_englisch.pdf (Poster-Sugar Learning Program; 2-sided with text from past Show)
- Sugar on a stick Mirabelle.png (Mirabelle 4 stick Logo )
Expert install methods
- Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to write a live USB Sugar on a Stick/Linux, Fedora page
- zyxliveinstaller Instructions Sugar on a Stick/ZyX-LiveInstaller
- zyxliveinstaller0.2.4-1.noarch.rpm http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/zyx-liveinstaller-0.2.4-1.noarch.rpm
Use "dd" command
- to make an install USB from a liveCD .iso file
- Great for netbooks
- Use (live).iso and terminal to make bootable USB
- Use to install to HD or USB without needing a DVD/CD ROM
- VERY DANGEROUS
- For Advanced Users
- You can destroy all the data and programs on your hard disk if you enter the wrong letter in (X) of=/dev/sd(X)
- Use "mount" command in terminal and look for the correct USB name ie /dev/sdb;/dev/sdc/;/dev/sdd etc
- Enter the root terminal with "su" (Fedora) or "sudo su" (Ubuntu) command
- Sample Build:
dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sd(X) 1384448+0 records in 1384448+0 records out 708837376 bytes (709 MB) copied, 194.409 s, 3.6 MB/s
Floss Manuals
(Important Manuals on how to use Sugar Applications and Features)
- READ THESE FIRST!
- Local copies of the.pdf files shown below:
- Source Links:
- Introduction to Sugar http://en.flossmanuals.net/sugar
- MakeYourOwnSugarActivities Internet Archive Publishing Quality
- In PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Daisy, Full Text. DjVu formats
- MakeYourOwnSugarActivities-es with corrected index
- MakeYourOwnSugarActivities Internet Archive Publishing Quality
- Introduction to Sugar http://en.flossmanuals.net/sugar
- Browse http://en.flossmanuals.net/browse
- Chat http://en.flossmanuals.net/chat
- Collaboration http://en.flossmanuals.net/collaborativefutures/
- SugarCollaboration http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/SugarCollaboration
- FunWithTheJournal http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/FunWithTheJournal
- Linux Command Line http://en.flossmanuals.net/CommandLineIntro/Introduction#
- ActivitiesGuideSugar-English http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction
- Record http://en.flossmanuals.net/record
- The Terminal http://en.flossmanuals.net/terminal
- Turtle Art http://en.flossmanuals.net/turtleart
- Write http://en.flossmanuals.net/write_activity
- Reading And Leading With One Laptop Per Child http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/Introduction
- Text to Speech: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/TextToSpeech
Blogs
- Blogs
- Blog aggregators and popular blogs on Sugar and OLPC.
References
- How to make your own custom Sugar-Creation_Kit.iso file (How this DVD was converted to an .iso file)
- Collect, annotate and sort the files you want in a folder on your Desktop.
- Burn the contents of this folder to a CD or DVD.
- Use the following command in Terminal as the root user:
dd if=/dev/sr0 of=Sugar-Creation-Kit.iso
- Sample output:
dd if=/dev/sr0 of=Sugar-Creation-Kit.iso 5555584+0 records in 5555584+0 records out 2844459008 bytes (2.8 GB) copied, 232.86 s, 12.2 MB/s
- the resulting .iso file can be sent over the internet or used to make copies by burning to a DVD
- How To Sugarize a Program
- Instructions on how to make a program appear in the (F3) Home view of Sugar as an icon
- The Undiscoverable (The Undiscoverable Features of Sugar)
- Features and tips not easily discovered about using Sugar
E-books
- Education Team/Creating textbooks
- Reading And Leading With One Laptop Per Child http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/Introduction
Graphic installers
Liveusb Creator
- Fedora and Windows (BEST METHOD TO USE)
- how to create and use liveusb-creator fedora:FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo fedora:How to create and use Live USB#Graphical Method - Windows or Fedora
- Liveusb-creator https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
liveusb-creator Digest, Vol 28, Issue 6 Message: 2 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:02:46 -0500 From: Luke Macken <lmacken@redhat.com> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] liveusb-creator 3.10.0 Windows release To: liveusb-creator@lists.fedorahosted.org Message-ID: <20110125040246.GD16772@tomservo.cable.rcn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii liveusb-creator 3.10.0 Windows Release https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-3.10.0-setup.exe * Changes Install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package, if neccessary, to get the liveusb-creator running on more versions of Windows. *Tickets Fixed Live USB Creator (3.9.3) doesn't run on Windows XP https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ticket/793
- F14 version for windows released: http://lewk.org/blog/liveusb-creator-3.9.3.html 01/06/2011
[SoaS] SoaS windows USB builder 01:14 PM 01/21/2011 Kevin Gordon Folks: It would appear that the fix which now allows the Fedora Windows USB builder to now correctly create a bootable USB stick of the most recent F14 based SoaS USB (with syslinux 4.03), the app now no longer properlry creates the previous SoaS versions (the berries) from the spin ISO's, that will boot. Workaround appears to be to use the same methodology as before but in the case where one wants to create older version bootable usb's, one now manually copies an *older* 3xx syslinux into the windows working directory before doing the build Full instructions for this method are listed in this SoaS digest in previous posts. If one didn't keep their old syslinux, its available in the archives at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
ZyX-LiveInstaller
UNetbootin
- unetbootinwindows471.exe for windows
- unetbootinlinux471
- UNetbootin
- (Advanced) UNetbootin Command line
- How to Make a 2GB Installer USB with UNetbootin
pendrivelinux
- usb-installs-from-linux How to Do it Information
- universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3 Windows
- boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux linux (Advanced)
- boot-a-usb-flash-drive-in-virtualbox VirtualBox
openSUSE Live USB stick
Multisystem LiveUSB
Multisystem enables a LiveUSB to do everything, ideal for exploring different Linux distributions without installing on your PC, or to install the Linux distribution of your choice on your PC much faster than via a LiveCD by using fast USB 2.0 ports.
Essential for the current range of netbooks that have no CD drive.
Ideal for any geek, anyone doing maintenance, keep your USB key with you always, and be ready for use in wherever you are with friends in a cafe, ...
- Multisystem is a free software developed under GPL-V3 written in bash / gtkdialog for creating USB sticks MultiBoot.
- (in French with google translations on some pages)
Plop Linux
Plop Linux is a small distribution that can boot from CD, DVD, USB flash drive (UFD), USB harddisk or from network with PXE. It's designed to rescue data from a damaged system, backup and restore operating systems, automate tasks and more.
- Instructions to build a Custom bootable CD/USB with your files on it.
SoaS installation variations
- How to Make a USB.pdf (How to make a usb windows/linux/Mac + Helper Boot Disks) Sugar on a Stick/Installation
- livecd-iso-to-disk http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/livecd-iso-to-disk (script used to load USB devices in Linux)
- soas-1-boot.iso http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas1boot.iso (Use as CD to boot SoaS v1 Strawberry, for older PC's that do not boot from a USB device)
- soas-1-strawberry.iso (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)
- soas-2-boot.iso http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas2boot.iso (Use as CD to boot SoaS v2 Blueberry for older PC's that do not boot from a USB device)
- soas2blueberry.iso (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)
- soas-3-mirabelle.iso (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)
- soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img.gz
- soas-2-blueberry-direct-cleared3GB.img.xz
- Listing of Other Live USB Distributions and install Methods: Category:Live USB
- VirtualBox 3.2 with multiple student's Copies of Soas each on a 2nd USB
Building a bootable USB
- (tested on a MacBook Air)
- 1 Boot Intel Mac
- Download Soas-v4 Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS Download
- Download Soas-v3 soas-3-mirabelle Download
- Copy them to a USB for transfer later (see below)
- 2 Format a 2nd Target USB (2GB) in OSX Disk utility
- Insert Target USB
- start Disk Utility
- highlight the target USB in left column of OSX Disk Utility
- Click on erase; select fat16; Name FEDORA; hit return
- 3 Burn USB
- Start Oracle VirtualBox for OSX VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmg Download
- TO download F14: Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop Download
- Start the F14 Desktop you have installed to VirtualBox
- Insert USB that contains: Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso and soas-3-mirabelle.iso
- Copy them to running f14-Desktop in VirtualBox
- Start Oracle VirtualBox for OSX VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmg Download
- 4 Start liveusb-creator (To install liveusb-creator; In Terminal:"yum install liveusb-creator)
- <Browse>/Desktop/ Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso or soas-3-mirabelle.iso
- <Target Device> /dev/sdb1 (FEDORA)
- <Persistent Storage> choose 900 MB
- <Create Live USB>
- 5 Shutdown Fedora 14 in VirtualBox; Close VirtualBox Program; Shutdown Mac.
- 6 Insert Soas-4-boot-test CD in USB DVD/CD; Plug in Live USB you just built
- 7 Boot from Soas-4-boot-test helper CD
- Hold down "C" key and do not release until Fedora Blue "soas-boot" screen appears
- It may take 10-15 seconds
- Select "Boot with basic video driver"
- Hit return
- Hold down "C" key and do not release until Fedora Blue "soas-boot" screen appears
- Congratulations Your Live USB should Boot and run Sugar on a Stick from the live USB with persistence
- Notes:
- Wireless connection does not work. Use an USB Ethernet Adapter for Internet Connectivity
- you can eject a USB CD/DVD drive, if used (In bottom right of sugar frame) and unplug the USB from the Mac. It will not be needed until next time you boot the Live USB
- Note Do Not try to Boot this USB outside of intel MAC with boot disk It becomes corrupted if boot is attempted as standalone Live Soas in Netbook
Boot Helper CD's
- MAC SOAS-3 Mirabelle Boot DISK
- soas-3-boot-test.iso (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)
- Read Me First & Credits to Programmer
- MAC SOAS-4 Mango Lassi Boot DISK
- soas-4-boot-test (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)
- rEFIt
rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. It also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment.
Backup and Restore
- Backup 4 (Activity) http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4326
- Restore 3 (Activity) http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4327
- Mirabelle backup (deja-dup) Sugar on a Stick/deja-dup
QEMU Virtualization
- f12 AND F13
- In Gnome terminal:
su yum install @virtualization
- Start (Graphical): Applications/System Tools/Virtual Machine Manager
- installs soas.iso files to VM HD (with liveinst command in terminal of running Virtual Machine)
ALSO See: QEMU
VMware Player Virtualization
VMware Player Appliances
- VMware Player appliance of soas-v3-Mirabelle
- Compressed in .zip file
- Download
- This appliance is ready to run "firstboot" (agree/user name/password/tz/etc)
- sugarroot is the root password.
- VMware Player appliance Trisquel-3 (NEW) 01/05/2011
- Compressed in .zip file
- download
- User=sugar
- Password=sugaruser
- VMware Player appliance Trisquel-4+sugar (NEW) 01/05/2011
- Compressed in .zip file
- download
- User=sugar
- Password=sugaruser
- VMware Player appliance Sugar on a Stick v2 (Blueberry)
- VMware Player appliance of openSUSE-Sugar
VirtualBox Virtualization
"VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. "VirtualBox overview
- A good solution for Macintosh Computers
Link: VirtualBox
- virtualbox-downloads Windows/Linux/Intel Macs
- oracle VirtualBox-downloads Alternate Link
SugarVB_InstallDemo.iso
- click above link^ to download 1.2GB Test DVD which contains
32bit-VirtualBox Installers (Directory with Install files for VirtualBox 4.0.4) Instructions.pdf (Instructions-How to install and import Appliance) trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-feb18.ovf trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-feb18-disk1.vmdk UserManual.pdf (VirtualBox 4.0.4 User Manual-269 pages)
- Note this is an experiment on how to distribute a VM Appliance
VirtualBox Appliances
- click above link ^ to see a complete listing of Prebuilt VirtualBox Appliances
- Appliance of Sugar on a Stick v3-Mirabelle
- firstboot has not yet run; so a new user name and password will be set for the gdm login on startup for the first time
- How Built:
- root=sugarroot
- 8-GB VirtualBox hard disc
- English and English keyboard
- USA-Los Angeles (Pacific timezone)
- download and import 2 files:
http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS-sugaruser.vmdk 533M http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS-sugaruser.ovf 12K
- Note1:Use the latest version of Oracle VM VirtualBox (3.2_10.8-64453 or later). Some appliances have multiple hard disc controllers and the earlier Sun VirtualBox 3.1 version does not support them.
- Note2: All appliances were built on a MacBook Air with Oracle VM VirtualBox (3.2.10-r66523) then tested on a Ubuntu installation on an Acer Aspire One Netbook imported into VirtualBox (3.2.10 r66523)
- Note3:Set ControlPanel/Frame "Edge" slider to far left for easier access to sugar-frame features
- Appliance of Soas-v2 Blueberry
- READ FIRST: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry_ovf_README_FIRST.txt
- Download these three files:
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry.vmdk http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry.ovf http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry.mf
Sugar Clone
- customize or duplicate Live USB installations
- (script files for making a customized Live USB installation self-replicating)
- Sugar Clone Wiki Page Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone
- Update: http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg02044.html
- Rebuild/Refresh a custom SoaS iso from a running stick
Possible Use Cases
(from Wiki Page)
- Curriculum packaging
1. A teacher wants to prepare a SoaS image with a custom set of installed Activity bundles or a Journal of Activity instances for an upcoming class term. 2. The teacher modifies their current working image by adding or deleting Activity bundles from their Home view and adding or removing Journal entries with specific content (such as a Physics model template or Etoys project), even saving distributable ebooks, or bookmarks in Browse Activity instances that are named for specific sets of local web destinations (a class portal perhaps for deployments lacking Internet connectivity). 3. The teacher scrubs out any personal passwords or other history that should not be shared in the new copies. 4. A fresh or recycled USB stick is inserted into the computer running the customized SoaS image and the SugarClone script is executed.
- Full image backup or sharing
1. A Learner has modified their environment, perhaps adding Activity bundles and prepared specific instances such as a Activities/Physics simulation. 2. Their modifications include changes to their operating system installed through yum or RPM to obtain some new core functionality. 3. The Learner wants to archive or share this image with friends or for a backup. 4. Personal or private information is scrubbed from the Journal or Browse history and other potential stores. 5. The User creates one or more Sugar Clones.
This method of backup has the advantage that it copies Learner changes to the core operating system as well as the Journal. A LiveOS image using a separate persistent home folder could be partially cloned with either the operating system overlay or home folder without the other should that be desired.
Build Your Own Remix with Fedora (Advanced)
- click above link^
- Make your own Custom CD/DVD.iso with a customized kickstart file
- Links to Trisquel, Debian and Mandriva on how to remix Live CD's
Fedora Sugar Bugs
Sugar Bugs
- Sugar on a Stick
- Soas-Sugar
- 0.90-olpc