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==Getting Sugar==
==Getting Sugar==
This section aims to be an introductory walkthrough of some of the methods of installing Sugar covered on the page [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation]].
===Hardware requirements===
Before you download, you need to know if you can use the 64-bit version. If your computer says on the box or documentation that it is 64-bit, you may use the 64-bit download version of Sugar called "x86_64". If you have an Intel MacIntosh, you will need the 64-bit x86_64 version. It is fairly safe to say that PCs above Pentium 2 (commenced production end 1995) and meeting the specification below can run the "i686" version. Sticks made with the "i686" version may be more transferrable between different PCs.
Fedora developers reported these minimum requirements for the Fedora 17 distributions.
: A 400 MHz or faster processor
: At least 512 MB memory (RAM), 1 GB recommended for best performance.
However by Fedora 19 specifications have risen ( http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_.html#hardware_overview ) to:
: A 1GHz or faster processor
: 1GB System Memory - RAM
These higher specifications are probably not critical to Sugar on a Stick made by the Fedora Live USB Creator method. However the LiveCD may not boot on a PC with RAM lower than 768 MB, you may encounter an automated check which causes the boot to abort if insufficient memory is found. [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Boot#Low_Memory.2C_RAM.2C_Hardware | Sugar on a Stick/Boot #Troubleshooting #Low Memory, RAM, Hardware]] describes a workaround.
Lower memory machines may work, the XO-1 runs with 256 MB, but running Sugar from a USB stick in a PC, (x86), environment with 256 MB RAM will be sub-optimal.
You will need to ensure the computer you plan to use is capable of booting from CD or USB.
:On older machines, you will probably need to make a change in the BIOS (see your computer's hardware documentation). Change ''Boot Order'', so that ''Boot from CD'' or ''Boot from USB'' comes before ''Boot from Hard Drive''. Many newer computers detect the USB device as a hard drive, see http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-bios-boot-options/
For SoaS the recommended minimum size of your USB flash drive is 2 GB, although a 1 GB drive will also work.
===Sugar Live CD===
The Sugar LiveCD contains a complete, functioning Sugar distribution and operating system on CD.
The Sugar LiveCD does not alter files already installed on your computer. It returns to its previous state when the LiveCD is ejected and the computer is rebooted. The Sugar LiveCD allows you to temporarily run Sugar; this allows you to explore Sugar and test how Sugar runs on your hardware. Your settings will not be saved between boots, but you can experiment with inserting a USB stick into the computer running the LiveCD, and reading from, and saving work to, the USB stick.
Produce your LiveCD by downloading the Sugar on a Stick .iso image from [[Sugar on a Stick/Downloads]] and burning it onto a blank CD.
Many computers have built in software which will convert and copy, "burn", an .iso image to a blank CD. Windows 7 contains a built-in Disk Image Burner http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2009/04/13/burn-iso-images-natively-in-windows-7.aspx or use a free utility, like [http://www.imgburn.com/ ImgBurn].
To run Sugar, insert your LiveCD into your computer and reboot into Sugar.
===Sugar on a Stick===
===Sugar on a Stick===
====Use Fedora Live USB Creator====
The page [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation]] describes a number of methods of installing Sugar on a Stick. Here we walk through the first and most simple method.
Only the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface Graphical User Interface] is used. The method is suitable for use with a Windows computer. (Fedora Live USB Creator also works on any Fedora system too.)
Have a look at the Fedora program you will use: https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
If you are a Windows user with no Linux experience, you'll find that creating a Sugar on a Stick is no more complicated than making a purchase on Ebay! Have a look at the Fedora program you will use: https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
If you are happy you have covered the above, you are ready to follow the instructions on [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation]]
If all has worked, you will shutdown your PC. With the newly written USB stick in a USB port, restart the PC. See [[Sugar on a Stick/Boot]] for extra information.
This method is covered in this screenshot tutorial: [[Tutorials/Installation/Create a SoaS v7 Live USB in Windows]] and in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieIj4aECk88 video] of an earlier version of this process.
==== livecd-iso-to-disk ====
This is the second method described on the page [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation#with Microsoft Windows]]
This is a robust method of making a Sugar on a Stick because you are making your LiveUSB from within Sugar, with a LiveCD you have already tested, and all tools are already on the CD.
You do not have to be a paid up member of the Windows community. If you already run a Linux distribution, but are not sure to what extent it supports Sugar, the livecd-iso-to-disk tool will work on any PC which will launch the LiveCD.
You may need to spend a bit of time to become familiar with the Sugar environment using your LiveCD, see [[Getting Started/Explore]]. You need to become familiar with the Terminal Activity and how to gain administrative permissions, that is become root.
For futher background reading, this paragraph from the Fedora wiki describes the livecd-iso-to-disk tools in some detail. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Command_line_method:_Using_the_livecd-iso-to-disk_tool_.28Fedora_only.29
To proceed with livecd-iso-to-disk, full instructions are here, [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation#with Microsoft Windows]], in Method 2, Burn a CD-ROM disc, boot from it, then run the script, livecd-iso-to-disk
===Sugar on a Virtual Machine===
The advantage of a Virtual Machine (VM) is that with the full VM documentation you follow that documentation to install the VM on your PC or Mac. VirtualBox is a suitable choice of VM for a first attempt, see their website: https://www.virtualbox.org/
As ever, download the Sugar on a Stick .iso from [[Sugar on a Stick/Downloads]]
Open the VM, bind the .iso image to the VM and boot it.
All VMs have excellent documentation on how to boot an .iso and again it is covered on this page [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation#SoaS on VirtualBox]] and the method to make a Sugar on a Stick from your VM, is covered here [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation#with Microsoft Windows]] in Method 3, Launch a virtual machine with the Sugar on a Stick .iso file, then run the script, livecd-iso-to-disk
===Sugar on Fedora===
If you have (or create) a computer running the Fedora operating system, Sugar can be installed by the "Software" application, or by command line.
Using GUI, from the Applications Menu, Select Administration, Select Software. Enter '''Sugar''' in the search field.
The recommended minimum size of your USB flash drive is 2 GB, although a 1 GB drive will also work.
Among all the packaged Activities select, "The emulator for the Sugar Learning Environment" sugar-emulator.''<sub>version-number</sub>'' and any or all of the Activities.
Sugar will be available in your Applications Menu, Select Education.
Using the command line, in a terminal, enter
sudo yum install @sugar-desktop sugar-emulator
With sugar-desktop and sugar-emulator installed you have two ways of running Sugar. In addition to Applications Menu, Select Education, when you reboot Fedora, at the point where you login, a Sugar entry will now be present in the login prompt, or under "Session Type". Select "Sugar" within the login prompt and the computer will boot into a Sugar session.
== Please Explore Sugar ==
== Please Explore Sugar ==