Sugar on a Stick/Linux/Installation

These are the steps for installing Sugar on a Stick on a USB/SD device.

This page is transcluded to various installation instruction pages.

0. Download the latest Sugar on a Stick .iso file.
   
   
1. Prepare: (with root user permissions at a terminal or console command line)
   • Create a mount point directory: mkdir /media/soas
   • Mount the .iso file to make it accessible as a disk: mount /path/to/downloaded.iso /media/soas/

     (Where /path/to/downloaded.iso is the filesystem path, or fully specified name, of the downloaded .iso file.)

     This is the source for the installation, and must remain mounted until the installation is complete.

   • Insert a USB stick of 2 GB or greater capacity into your computer.
   • Use the command df -Th or blkid to get the USB device node name.
       You should see something like the following:

   [root@MyComputer ~]# df -Th
   Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
   rootfs         rootfs     20G  5.5G   14G  29% /
   devtmpfs       devtmpfs  1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /dev
   tmpfs          tmpfs     1.6G  788K  1.6G   1% /dev/shm
   tmpfs          tmpfs     1.6G  1.3M  1.6G   1% /run
   tmpfs          tmpfs     1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
   tmpfs          tmpfs     1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /media
   /dev/loop0     iso9660   509M  509M     0 100% /media/soas
   /dev/sdc1      vfat      995M  983M   13M  99% /run/media/MyAccount/LG
   

   (The /run/media/MyAccount/ path is the new, Fedora 17 standard mount point for removable media.
   /media/MyMountPoint is common on other operating systems.)

   [root@MyComputer ~]# blkid
   /dev/sda1: LABEL="Fedora-17" UUID="8962913a-c335-4c3b-b3ed-90fbb9c97580" TYPE="ext4" 
   /dev/sdc1: LABEL="LIVE" UUID="A7B2-6C07" TYPE="vfat" 
   /dev/loop0: LABEL="Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso" TYPE="iso9660" 
   

   (Additional disk drive partitions may be listed on your computer.)

   The mount point (Mounted on), Filesystem, Size, and LABEL should help you identify what you want.

   • Unmount the USB device filesystem:
     umount /run/media/MyAccount/MyUSBdiscMountPoint

     (The /run/media/MyAccount/ path is the new, Fedora 17 standard mount point. Other operating systems may use /media/MyMountPoint.)

   • (You should have the isomd5sum package installed so that the following installation script can verify the download.)
     
     
2. Load: Execute the following installation command, as the root user, in one command line with many options:
   
   /media/soas/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 900 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /path/to/downloaded.iso /dev/sd?1

   The '?' in the final parameter represents the target USB device scsi drive node, such as sdb1 or sdc1, etc., and /path/to/downloaded.iso is the location and name of the .iso file.

   The operating system will occupy ~510 MB, and the overlay and home size arguments, 500 and 900, were selected to fit in a 2 GB device. These may be adjusted depending on your preferences and device capacity (see LiveOS image).

         The installation transcript should look something like the following:

   [root@MyComputer ~]# /media/soas/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 900 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /home/MyAccount/Downloads/Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso /dev/sdc1
   Verifying image...
   /home/MyAccount/Downloads/Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso:   470134baa7e48085595243e53b55d41e
   Fragment sums: 7de3e14f3d5aa991343fa35bdfe3a1db59d578db95a844a63d22de789de1
   Fragment count: 20
   Press [Esc] to abort check.
   Checking: 100.0%
   
   The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
   
   It is OK to use this media.
   Copying live image to target device.
   squashfs.img
      512344064 100%   43.04MB/s    0:00:11 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
   
   sent 512406681 bytes  received 31 bytes  44557105.39 bytes/sec
   total size is 512344064  speedup is 1.00
   osmin.img
           8192 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
   
   sent 8265 bytes  received 31 bytes  16592.00 bytes/sec
   total size is 8192  speedup is 0.99
   Updating boot config file
   Initializing persistent overlay file
   500+0 records in
   500+0 records out
   524288000 bytes (524 MB) copied, 5.1728 s, 101 MB/s
   Initializing persistent /home
   900+0 records in
   900+0 records out
   943718400 bytes (944 MB) copied, 152.195 s, 6.2 MB/s
   Formatting unencrypted /home
   mke2fs 1.42.3 (14-May-2012)
   Filesystem label=
   OS type: Linux
   Block size=4096 (log=2)
   Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
   Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
   57600 inodes, 230400 blocks
   11520 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
   First data block=0
   Maximum filesystem blocks=239075328
   8 block groups
   32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
   7200 inodes per group
   Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
   	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376
   
   Allocating group tables: done                            
   Writing inode tables: done                            
   Creating journal (4096 blocks): done
   Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
   
   tune2fs 1.42.3 (14-May-2012)
   Setting maximal mount count to -1
   Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
   Installing boot loader
   Target device is now set up with a Live image!
   

   
   
3. Boot: Insert the USB stick into a bootable USB port on your computer. Set the option to "boot from USB" in your computer's BIOS setup, and then start up the computer.
   
   

• To create more Sugar Sticks on other 1 GB or greater USB or SD devices, while running Sugar on a Stick, in the Terminal Activity, execute this command as the root user:
  
  /run/initramfs/live/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 175 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /run/initramfs/livedev /dev/sd?1

Where /dev/sd?1 is replaced by a new device node for the second USB/SD device you want to load with Sugar on a Stick.