[SoaS] SoaS Blueberry Marketing Collateral

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Sean DALY wrote:
> OK Douglas please bear with me so that's for installing on additional
> blank media (e.g. second USB stick)? No risk to whatever's installed
> on the host computer's hard drive?

The use case is exactly like I described it: "install Sugar to a 
computer's hard disk". I'm planning to write more concrete instructions 
for that on a separate doc, but I could really use a hand and plan to 
get back to readying the release, soon.

For replicating to a second USB key, the recommended way is (tip of the 
hat to Dave Bauer) something like: sudo livecd-iso-to-disk 
--overlay-size-mb xxx /dev/sr0 /dev/sdYZ

> Put another way, in a typical classroom case (PC with Windows or Mac
> with OSX) what's the benefit? We need to communicate that to teachers
> and parents

It's basically like: "You used Sugar on a Stick and want to put it on 
your hard disk while keeping all the changes you made already? Cool!"

The procedure then is: Open a terminal and type a command. Launch the 
partitioner through the interface and create a partition layout (big fat 
warning should appear). Walk through the rest of the installer by 
selecting your appropriate partitions. Wait. Once it's done, unplug your 
USB key and that's it. No need to reboot. You're already using your 
installed system. After rebooting, everything should work fine, too (tip 
of the hat to Douglas McClendon for this cool technology).

It will also somewhat work in schools, but from what I recall, we agreed 
not market Blueberry aggressively as entirely deployment ready.

--Sebastian

> thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Douglas McClendon
> <dmc.sugar at filteredperception.org>  wrote:
>> Sean DALY wrote:
>>>
>>> OK Sebastian this is a great start but they need some work:
>>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> * zyx-liveinstaller: AFAIK only for GNU/Linux systems? we need to say that
>>
>> zyx-liveinstaller is a program that runs from a booted soas, and installs
>> the running soas OS to disk/partition (in traditional 'non-live' fashion).
>>   No relation or dependence on any other OS.
>>
>> Though installation to loopback file on an existing linux or windows
>> filesystem (instead of a dedicated partition or disk) is a straightforward
>> enhancement longterm.
>>
>> -dmc
>>
>>