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Are you new to Sugar?

The easiest way to get started is to use Sugar on a Stick. Basic instructions are found below. A more detailed Sugar-on-a-Stick Creation Guide is also available.

MS Windows

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(1) Prepare: Download the Fedora Live USB Creator from FedoraHosted
Download Mirabell.png
(2) Download: Download the Sugar-on-a-Stick iso.
USB flash drive.jpg (3) Burn: Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card) with 1 GB or more of free space into your computer and launch Fedora Live USB Creator to create a Sugar-on-a-Stick bootable image.
(4) Boot: Insert the USB stick into a USB port on your computer. Set the option to "boot from USB" in your computer's BIOS, and then start up the computer.

Detailed installation instructions for Windows and booting instructions are available. There is also a guide to using Sugar on a Stick.

GNU/Linux

Gnulinux.png (1) Prepare: Use this script http://bit.ly/livecd-iso-to-disk to create a bootable image. (Run chmod +x livecd-iso-to-disk.sh after you download the script to make it executable.)
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(2) Download: Download the Sugar-on-a-Stick iso.
USB flash drive.jpg (3) Burn: Execute, as the root user, in one command with arguments, the following:

./livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /path/to/source.iso /dev/sd?1

where '?' in the final parameter represents the target bootable device node, such as sdb1 or sdc1, etc.
(4) Boot: Insert the USB stick into a USB port on your computer. Set the option to "boot from USB" in your computer's BIOS, and then start up the computer.

Detailed installation instructions for GNU/Linux and booting instructions are available. There is also a guide to using Sugar on a Stick.

Apple OSX

Apple.gif (1) Prepare: Download Sun Virtualbox
(2) Download: Download these three files:
soas-v3-Mirabelle.mf, soas-v3-Mirabelle.ovf, and soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmdk
(3) Launch: Virtualbox
(4) Import: soas-v3-Mirabelle.ovf from the Import Appliance option under the File menu.

Alternative installation instructions for OSX and booting instructions are available. There is also a guide to using Sugar on a Stick.

Advanced users

Gear.png customizing Sugar on a Stick;
• a detailed Customization Guide; and
• additional instructions for using VirtualBox and other virtual machines.

Do you have an OLPC XO?

OLPCXO.png Upgrade to Sugar 0.88 with Fedora 11 and Gnome
Upgrade to Sugar 0.84 with Fedora 11 and Gnome.
OLPC:OS images
Developers may experiment with Updating XOs to the latest Sugar on a Stick release.

Are you looking for Sugar Activities?

Visit our Activity Library Sugarlabs mainpage 02.png

Are you a developer or Beta tester?

Select your favorite distribution Fedora-small.jpg Debian-small.jpg Ubuntu-small.jpg Gentoo-small.png Altlinux-small.png Mandriva-small.png Caixa Mágica-small.jpg Suse-small.jpg Education/Live Trisquel icon.png
Or try a Live USB version of Sugar Soas-mirabelle-logo.png, v4 alpha with Sugar 0.89.1 and Fedora 14 (Branched)
Trisquel icon.png Trisquel on a Sugar Toast (Trisquel 3.0 Dwyn)

Are you a systems developer?

Gear.png Learn how to get setup on the Supported systems page.
Here are some additional references you may find useful: * jhbuild
* Gitorious source code repository
* Virtual machine or emulator image files* Adding Sugar to your favorite distro...

Are you preparing a deployment without Internet access?

See Sugar Creation Kit.