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[[File:Toast_boot_menu.png|200px|thumb|right|TOAST boot menu]]
[[File:Toast_boot_menu.png|200px|thumb|right|TOAST boot menu]]
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*Sugar 0.86.2 with the Fructose and Honey activities.
*Sugar 0.86.2 with the Fructose and Honey activities.
*Built on top of Trisquel 3.0 (based on Ubuntu 9.04), making it 100% free.
*Built on top of Trisquel 3.0 (based on Ubuntu 9.04), making it 100% free.
More info and screenshots can be found here: http://trisquel.info/gl/trisquel-con-sugar
More info and screenshots can be found here: http://trisquel.info/gl/trisquel-con-sugar
See also [[Community/Distributions/Trisquel]].
==Download==
==Download==
==Create a USB thumb drive==
==Create a USB thumb drive==
A Live USB thumb drive runs faster and allows the user to keep the data and settings for the next run. To get that, download the iso and burn it on a blank CD. Start a Live session with it, plug your flash drive and open the terminal activity. Run the command usb-creator and follow the instructions to configure your USB drive. If it is FAT formated -the most usual format for this units-, the data on it will not be erased, and will remain accessible.
A Live USB thumb drive runs faster and allows the user to keep the data and settings for the next run. To get that, download the iso and burn it on a blank CD. Start a Live session with it, plug your flash drive and open the terminal activity. Run the command usb-creator and follow the instructions to configure your USB drive. If it is FAT formated (the most usual format for these units), the data on it will not be erased, and will remain accessible.
===Live CD persistence===
===Live CD persistence===
You can achieve user data persistence by loading TOAST from a handy USB drive, but you can also use a regular Live CD for that, and it will work in systems with no USB-boot capabilities. You just need to pass the "persistent" parameter to the Live CD kernel -pressing F4 in the boot menu-, and have a ext2 (ext3 and 4 will work to) partition labeled "live-rw" available in any disk. It can be a USB flash drive too.
You can achieve user data persistence by loading TOAST from a handy USB drive, but you can also use a regular Live CD for that, and it will work in systems with no USB-boot capabilities. You just need to pass the "persistent" parameter to the Live CD kernel (pressing F4 in the boot menu) and have a ext2 (ext3 and 4 will work too) partition labeled "live-rw" available in any disk. It can be a USB flash drive too.
Any data in the /home directory will be stored in the live-rw partition, if you need to install a persistent file outside /home, as a config file or a program, or even install some deb packages, you just need to label the partition "casper-rw" instead. For normal Sugar use,
Any data in the /home directory will be stored in the live-rw partition; if you need to install a persistent file outside /home, as a config file or a program, or even install some deb packages, you just need to label the partition "casper-rw" instead. For normal Sugar, use "live-rw".
This method is useful to save space in the thumb drive for persistence data, and also because the persistence partition can be mounted and accessed from other computers. It can be used to have live persistent sessions in systems that cannot boot from USB, but this will work faster if you use the method described next.
This method is useful to save space in the thumb drive for persistence data, and also because the persistence partition can be mounted and accessed from other computers. It can be used to have live persistent sessions in systems that cannot boot from USB, but this will work faster if you use the method described next.
===Easy virtualized images===
===Easy virtualized images===
The above methods can also be used in a virtualization application like VirtualVox or KVM. You just need to start a live session using the TOAST iso, format the virtual disk with ext3, label it "live-rw" and reboot. Since then, the virtual disk will store the persistent data. If a new TOAST iso is released, you just need to replace the image attached to your virtualization system.
The above methods can also be used in a virtualization application like VirtualBox or KVM. You just need to start a live session using the TOAST iso, format the virtual disk with ext3, label it "live-rw" and reboot. Since then, the virtual disk will store the persistent data. If a new TOAST iso is released, you just need to replace the image attached to your virtualization system.
==Updating==
==Updating==