[OLPC-AU] Creating a customised Sugar on a Stick

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 16 September 2010 15:00, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> On 16 September 2010 13:55, Ian Cunningham <ian.cunningham at nt.gov.au> wrote:
>> On another matter.
>>
>> Is it possible to create a customized Sugar on A Stick?
>> I would like to build a SOAS iso which has added activities and includes flash player.
>
> There are instructions on creating a custom Sugar on a Stick at
> sugarlabs.org. The 'proper' way is to use the Sugar Creation Kit:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit
>
> I think the easiest way, however, is to:
>
>  1. create a fresh SoaS (preferably create some room for persistent
> storage as well)
>  2. customise it the way you want (add content, activities, etc.)
>  3. optionally remove all personalisation (to prompt for a name on startup)
>  4. create an image of the stick (using dd, clonezilla, etc.)
>  5. write the image to another stick or equal or greater size
>
> This is basically what I did to create the sticks for the workshops in
> Cairns and Alice Springs. The only difference is that I outsourced
> Step 4 to a professional duplication service. This may be more
> cost-effective if you are making many sticks.
>

If you wish to provide an XO-like experience, stay with SoaS v1
(Strawberry). This version has Sugar 0.84, the same version on the
XOs. Later versions of Sugar have a slightly different interface.

The downside is that Strawberry is old and may not have drivers for
the latest hardware.