Talk:Sugar on a Stick/Windows

Introduction

Can someone explain a little more in the intro as to how sugar on a stick will work with a windows machine? Do you boot on it? Is it some sort of virtual machine? Is SoaS for windows a linux OS? Harriska2

See ideas emerging on this topic at Sugar on a Stick/Roadmap#Use cases --FGrose 19:06, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

For Windows only users

Hi,

Windows has at least two different levels of "format". The instructions are not clear as to which to use or not use.

One is FDISK, usually run from DOS, and seems like it should be avoided because it will muck with the partition boundaries.

Another is the FORMAT of the "File Manager", usually accessed by right clicking on the device.("Explore" to the device, right click, select "Format...". Within that choice is a "Quick Format" option which may be good or bad to use with a flash device.

Could someone who knows make the instructions a bit clearer????

MWTalbutt -- 29-Jun-2009

The Windows instructions no longer recommend formatting the USB device. --FGrose 20:06, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks FGrose! They are slightly clearer - at least it says something like "Do Not Do unless fails without." Perhaps the detail I was looking for belongs on the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device page? MWTalbutt

putting sugar around a stick (with fedora's help)

Hi,

just a heads up about where we are regarding installation of Soas:

- on Windows we are very well, it's reported that liveusb-creator works well even for XOs,

- on Linux, latest releases of liveusb-creator weren't working at all, but people are working to fix that on Fedora 10 (thanks Kushal!). On other distros, seems like recent Liveusb-creator won't work due to new dependencies included :(

- about livecd-iso-to-disk.sh on all linux flavors, it isn't working currently for Soas2 because Rawhide requires that a more recent version of syslinux (3.73) is installed (http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/643). The good news is that we have a workaround (thanks Elena!).

- also, livecd-iso-to-disk.sh will fail to install correctly an image that can boot on XOs because of http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/644 . It has been reported upstream.

- and also, livecd-iso-to-disk.sh will fail to install correctly an image that can boot on XOs because it seems to require reading a squashfs image in a format that only very recent kernels (2.6.29) can read. No idea what we can do here, but maybe we don't really need to read that image from the computer that makes the installation? Otherwise, how can liveusb-creator do the installation for XOs on windows?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Tomeu (26 March 2009)