[sugar] [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu LiveUSB is ready

[David Van Assche]

Actually with the advent of intrepid Ibex, and I believe Hardy Heron
too, there is a menu option under System -> Administration that says
create USB startup disk. You choose your iso and choose how much of
the usb stick u want to use for the OS, and hit create startup disk...
dont think it could be simpler...

David Van Assche

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> Ok! I got this to work. thank you Ubuntu developers but talk about screwing
> in your own seat!
>
> Is there an easier way to help people create USBs? On SLAX we created a zip
> file then there was a boot file (2 versions actually one for linux and one
> for windows) that is run to make the stick bootable:
> http://schoolkey.net/wiki/creating-keys
>
> Is there a way I can I copy my USB and make the new one bootable so I don't
> have to go through the whole process again?
>
> The USB boots up to Sugar, which is what I want. Is there a way for me to
> also access the underlying Ubuntu?
>
>
>
> Here is my feedback on making the existing directions more friendly.
>
> Download the stock ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso and burn it
>
> Yup, I can do this.
>
> Boot from this CD and from there, use LiveUSB to copy the system to USB
> stick (use a stick with 1-2 GB capacity as problems have been reported with
> larger ones)
>
> Ok so when you follow this link you eventually end up at this page.
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/probono/ubuntu/pool/main/l/liveusb/
>
> Please provide instructions on exactly what to download. I picked
> liveusb_0.1.1_all.deb
> Then also provide instructions on exactly what the user should do to install
> it.  I fumbled around and eventually it opened, but I couldn't actually tell
> someone else how to do it.
> Then provide instruction on exactly which options to set.  I picked both
> persistence and flash and the flash ended up giving me an error.
>
> If you use the persistence option, you need to replace casper/initrd.gz on
> the stick with the bugfixed initrd.gz provided here.
>
> The Casper direction is write protected. Please provide instructions on how
> to deal with that.
> What is this? Why am I doing it?
>
> Add the file sugar.squashfs to the directory casper/ on the USB stick
>
> Again the write protection on Casper made this more of a challenge then
> might be expected.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:19 AM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> It looks like our friends at Ubuntu have been hard at work building a
>> Subuntu live usb.  Simon Peter, also know as probono, has posted information
>> on downloading and building the usb at
>>
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/
>>
>> Thanks to the Ubuntu SugarTeam for packaging Sugar on Ubuntu and to
>> Probono for building the sugar.squashfs.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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