[SoaS] You scream, I scream, we all scream for Mirabelle ice cream in a SugarClone

[Thomas C Gilliard]

I tried a chain of installs of the custom modified USB

I already had older? version of modified_livecd-iso-to-disk and 
transferSugarImage in my modified USB.img

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/CustomSpin405-2GB.img.tar.gz

* did a dd of this expanded .img file to make a 2 GB USB
* Booted USB
* installed SugarClone via wget to /mnt/live/
(still using already installed 3 files from previous DL)

1-)
command: /mnt/live/SugarClone

It found my 4GB SD  in drive /dev/sdd1
from the booted USB /dev/sdc1
 worked and found cardreader SD as only device
but had error message about permissions for ssd files (2)
It went on to do successful install to SD.

2-)I then used the SD to install to a fat16 boot flag set 2GB USB
command: /mnt/live/SugarClone
but had error message about permissions for ssd files (2)
worked and found Lexar Firefly USB as only device.\
 sucessfully installed

3-) used resulting USB to write to new SD it could not find /dev/sdd1
looked for /dev/sde1

4-) did wget of modified_livecd-iso-to-disk (new version)
used new 2GB SD formatted fat16 boot flag
error: /dev/sde1 /media/target.xxxxx
mount: you must specify the file system type..
exit clean
......
exit 1

questions:
Are there a new and old version of the modified_livecd-iso-to-disk  script?
what is happening here?

Tom Gilliard
satellit



Frederick Grose wrote:
> Was: Duplicating SoaS with customization.
>
> New work:
>
> 1. Reduced the 3 earlier scripts to 2 that provide a means to
>    duplicate a running SoaS image together with its customizations in
>    a persistent overlay or home folder.
>
>    modified_livecd-iso-to-disk
>    SugarClone
>
>    These are available at http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/.
>
> 2. Automated detection of attached USB storage devices and provide a
>    selection menu if there are more than one.
>
> 3. Maintained a simple command line for the default case:
>
>       /mnt/live/SugarClone
>
>    (even as the default liveuser account).
>
> 4. Provided input auditing for advanced uses.
>
> 5. Embedded a much more complete usage document available as an option:
>
>       /mnt/live/SugarClone --help
>
> 6. Tested and updated more code paths.
>
> 7. Adopted satellit's suggestion to update the boot menu Welcome title.
>    And updated the 'About my Computer' Build information so this is
>    available at run time.
>
>
> Test Usage:
>
> 1. Before booting the SoaS device that will be the source of the new
>    SugarClone, copy the script files above to the root '/' folder at
>    the base of the filesystem (not the /root folder).
> 2. Boot the USB stick into SoaS and insert a second USB device into the
>    computer running that SoaS image.
> 3. In the Terminal Activity of that running SoaS image, enter the command,
>
>       /mnt/live/SugarClone
>
> The scripts will copy the currently running image to the second device.
> When the second device is booted, a new Sugar Learner sign in will be
> triggered, and the customized Journal and operating system will be present.
>
> Step 1 above, from the perspective of the learner inside a currently
> running SoaS image, would be different:  The root folder of the USB
> device would be reached through the /mnt/live mount point.  The scripts
> could be obtained (assuming Internet connectivity) as follows:
>
> 1. In the Terminal Activity, change the working directory:
>
>    cd /mnt/live
>
> 2. wget http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/modified_livecd-iso-to-disk
>
>    wget http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/SugarClone
>
> 3. chmod +x modified_livecd-iso-to-disk
>
>    chmod +x SugarClone
>
>
> Possible Use Case:
>
> 1. A teacher wants to prepare a SoaS image with a custom set of installed
>    Activity bundles or a Journal of Activity instances for an upcoming
>    class term.
> 2. The teacher modifies their current working image by adding or deleting
>    Activity bundles from their Home view and adding or removing Journal
>    entries with specific content, even saving distributable ebooks, or
>    bookmarks in Browse instances that are named for specific sets of local
>    web destinations (a class portal perhaps for deployments lacking
>    Internet connectivity).
> 3. The teacher scrubs out any personal passwords or other history that
>    should not be shared in the new copies.
> 4. Following customization, a fresh or recycled USB stick that is inserted
>    into the computer running the customized SoaS image can become the
>    SugarClone.
>
> Step 5 assumes that Usage step 1 has been performed either directly or by
> the SoaS packagers.
>
> These scripts have been tested with SoaS-Mirabelle (available at
> http://alt.pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/<http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/>)
> but should work with other versions of SoaS.
>
> The current version of the scripts have the /bin/bash shell specified
> without the -x (xtrace) option.  Set this option, #!/bin/bash -x in the
> first line of the script to aid testing.  When set, they will show a lot
> of output on the screen as they run.
>
> The scripts are copied to the new SugarClone devices prepared with these
> scripts so that they can easily propagate themselves.  This also applies to
> all new SoaS installations that are prepared with these scripts (using
> --image <source> options).
>
>
> Needed:
>
> 1. More review and testing.
> 2. Submission of the modified_livecd-iso-to-disk script upstream.
> 3. Modifications for Intel Macintosh computers.
> 4. A way to automatically identify extra partitions on devices with more
>    than one available partition.
> 5. A way to automatically identify live media images on secondary devices
>    and partitions that could be used as sources for a SugarClone.
> 6. Bundling of the scripts for convenience until they are included in
>    SoaS.
> 7. A Sugar Activity that calls the scripts.
>
> These all should help us better prepare a SoaS customization kit.
>
>     --Fred
>
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