Sugar on a Stick/Linux/openSUSE

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openSUSE Sugar-Desktop on a stick

• Downloads:

1. openSUSE DL Site: [1]
2. Sourceforge DL Site:[2]
3. openSUSE-Live USB and other medias: [3]

• The openSUSE version is a clicfs "dual mode" image that is burned to a stick by the dd command.
• If just dd is used, creates a CD image on a USB. (Useful for Netbooks with no CD Drive)
• fdisk can create a persistent 2nd partition (see below)
• Details [4]
• Live_USB_stick several ways to build a Live USB

Example record:

• be sure /dev/sd(x) points to your USB (can destroy your Hard Disk if wrong) use Partition Manager to see proper label...

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# dd if=openSUSE-Sugar-live-unstable.i686-0.3.0-Build22.2.iso of=/dev/sd(x) bs=4M
152+1 records in
152+1 records out
639631360 bytes (640 MB) copied, 118.261 s, 5.4 MB/s

---------------Create Persistent Partition---------------------
# fdisk /dev/sd(x)

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3824.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdg: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x86803d76
  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sd(x)1   *           1         610      624640   83  Linux
Command (m for help): n
Command action
  e   extended
  p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (611-3824, default 611):
Using default value 611
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (611-3824, default 3824):
Using default value 3824  
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdg: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x86803d76
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sd(x)1   *           1         610      624640   83  Linux
/dev/sd(x)2             611        3824     3291136   83  Linux
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
#

Prebuilt VMware .vmx File

• Prebuilt VMWare (.vmx) file for Download:

1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/Sugar/
2. http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Blueberry-vmx.tar.gz

Notes

Use with VMPlayer

• free download from: [5]

Created with VMWorkstation 6.52
8GB in 2GB slices
# yum install anaconda
livinst  install with Los Angeles TZ
/boot =200  ext4
/     =7989 ext4
1024 memory
root=sugarroot
grub edited for selinux=0 with gedit
cleared with:
rm -rf ~/.sugar
su -
password: sugarroot
shutdown -h now

(decompress this file and load it on 2GB or larger (8GB max) USB, run it with VMPlayer)