[LB-XO-LiveCD] creating a live CD question

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from jay byrd's message of Fri Oct 22 05:02:47 +0200 2010:

> I am very sorry to bug you with a dumb question but I hope you can help me.

Nothing in your mail sounded like a dumb question to me.

> I have a bunch of old PC's and I want to install Sugar on them and give them to 
> the neighborhood kids and the local elementary school.

Great! For this purpose I recommend installing some distribution that
comes with Sugar out of the box. If you're familiar with Debian then I'd
recommend Debian Squeeze, otherwise the latest Fedora release is
probably the better option currently as it contains more activities (but
you can always download more from activities.sugarlabs.org).

> I have downloaded the LiveCD iso RAR's 3 times from 3 different sites
> and they never contain the iso file for "ImgBurn" to use.

No idea what you downloaded; I've never seen any LiveCD image containing
Sugar being compressed with RAR. RAR is non-free, so most people
interested in Sugar wouldn't use it.

This mailing list is about the "LiveBackup XO-LiveCD" [1,2] created by 
Wolfgang Rohrmoser and Kurt Gramlich. It contains the system that was
shipped with (old?) XO-1s (OLPC release 8.2.1, Build 802) turned into a
Live CD that can run on "standard" PC hardware.
Unless you want to make activities work on those old systems (and don't
have an XO-1 yourself you could test them on), I'd advise against using
it. The Sugar version it contains is ancient, buggy and unsupported.

If you're interested in running Sugar off "Live media" instead of
installing it to a hard disk, you might give Sugar on a Stick (SoaS, [3])
or Ubuntu Sugar Remix (USR, [4]) a try.

HTH.

Sascha

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD
[2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Live_CD#OLPC_Live_CD
[3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
[4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar
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