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Hardware requirements. Flash drive minimum stated as 2GB
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If this is going to be your first attempt at running sugar, you could take the advice '''''buy rather than build'''''. For purchase information for Sugar pre-installed on a bootable USB flash drive, see [[Sugar Creation Kit#Commercial source of SoaS-loaded media]].
 
If this is going to be your first attempt at running sugar, you could take the advice '''''buy rather than build'''''. For purchase information for Sugar pre-installed on a bootable USB flash drive, see [[Sugar Creation Kit#Commercial source of SoaS-loaded media]].
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For installing Sugar on (your computer or) a flash drive, see [[Downloads]].
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Do not be discouraged by this comment from building Sugar on a Stick. It was the first bootable flash drive I made and worked at the second attempt.
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'''Hardware requirements'''
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You will need to ensure the computer you plan to use is capable of booting from USB.
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From http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora we see these minimum requirements for the current distribution, Fedora 16.
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:A 400MHz or faster processor
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:At least 768 MB memory (RAM), 1 GB recommended for best performance.
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The minimum size of your USB flash drive is 2GB.
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For installing Sugar on a flash drive, see [[Downloads]].
 
:Alternate: Boot from burned CD and enter "liveinst" in root terminal of sugar
 
:Alternate: Boot from burned CD and enter "liveinst" in root terminal of sugar
 
::This starts the fedora anaconda installer and you can select your 4 GB or larger USB; or your Hard Disk; as the media to install to.
 
::This starts the fedora anaconda installer and you can select your 4 GB or larger USB; or your Hard Disk; as the media to install to.
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