[SoaS] Advice on Sugar installation - Soas on VMworkstation

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Mark Malaspina wrote:
> Hi Tom,
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> Can you clarify for us - what exactly is an .iso file?  Do we need an
> .iso file on VMplayer, and if so, which .iso file do you recommend?
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> - Mark
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I would use:

http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-3-mirabelle.iso

Download it first then in VMworkstation:

===Step by step instructions for VMworkstation===

In VM workstation
Create a new virtual machine
Custom
* note use custom or installer will not recognize HD
Workstation 6.5 compatible
Installer disc image file (iso)  Browse
(select the soas-3-mirabelle.iso file you just downloaded)
Guest Operating System
 2. linux
 Red Hat Linux
Name the Virtual Machine (Type in name you want and accept the Location)
Processors
 one
Memory  (512 or larger)
Network Type  (Nat)
I/O adapter types (BusLogic)
Create a New DiskDisk type (IDE) (Independent) (Persistent)
Disk Size (8.0) (Split virtual disk into 2 GB files)
next
File name (label what you want)
Finish
Boots to CD  to Sugar
===============
Name___________
Click to change color(XO)
Done
Sugar Starts on f3 ring display
===============
 >to install to VM-Hard Disk:
sugar-terminal:
su
livieinst
(Anaconda installer starts)
f13 (next)
keyboard (US English)
Basic Storage Devices
Re-initialize all
localhost.localdomain
Set time zone (City)
Root Password
Use All Space
Write Changes to disk (copying live image to hard drive)
Congratulations (reboot)
exit sugar-terminal
click on XO in center of ring
shutdown
edit virtual machine settings (change to Use a Physical Drive )
save
Power on this virtual machine
sugar boots with blue horizontal bar
Welcome screen
User Name and password
Date and Time
Send Profile
Log in by clicking you user name; Password
back to change name then click to change color
done.

Congratulations you now have a hard disk install of Sugar!

Hint:
(Use the globe (Browse) to access the wiki.)

Have fun;

Tom Gilliard
satellit



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> From: Thomas C Gilliard [mailto:satellit at bendbroadband.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:31 PM
> To: Walter Bender
> Cc: Mark Malaspina; Krishan Patel; Courtney Dastis-Galvin
> Subject: Re: Advice on Sugar installation
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> Walter Bender wrote: 
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> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Mark Malaspina <mmalaspina at cfy.org>
> <mailto:mmalaspina at cfy.org>  wrote:
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> 	Dear Walter,
> 	 
> 	Krishan and I spoke to you a few months ago about Computers for
> Youth, and our team is working on figuring out how we can install Sugar
> on our families' computers most easily.
> 	 
> 	We have a question for you:
> 	 
> 	Assuming that we install VMWare on our families' computers, what
> exactly are the next steps in terms of what we need to do? We have read
> the Wiki page referred to below, but we're not sure what our next steps
> are exactly.
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> I have a prebuilt Soas-v4 Appliance for download here:
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> http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas-v4-817-2-README.txt
> http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas-v4-817-2.tar.bz2
>
> Unzip it and point VMworkstation or VMplayer at the vmdk file in the
> folder .
>
> If you like, I can make an appliance for you and upload it to the same
> site. 
> Please let me know which .iso file to use.
>
> Cordially
> Tom Gilliard
> satellit
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> I've not done this is a while, but I think all you need is to download
> the vmdk file and then open it from vmware. That'll launch Sugar.
>  
> -walter
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> 	Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide.
> 	 
> 	Best regards,
> 	 
> 	Mark
> 	 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Walter Bender [mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com]
> 	Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:30 PM
> 	To: Krishan Patel
> 	Subject: Fwd: [SoaS] Virtualbox Appliance of soas-3-Mirabelle
> (RC3) for testing
> 	 
> 	Below are links to the latest version of Sugar for VMware. It
> might be
> 	worth trying this version. But first, you need to install
> VMWare. See
> 	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware for more details.
> 	 
> 	regards.
> 	 
> 	-walter
> 	 
> 	---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 	From: Thomas C Gilliard <satellit at bendbroadband.com>
> <mailto:satellit at bendbroadband.com> 
> 	Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:16 AM
> 	Subject: Re: [SoaS] Virtualbox Appliance of soas-3-Mirabelle
> (RC3) for testing
> 	To: Development of live Sugar distributions
> <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org> <mailto:soas at lists.sugarlabs.org> 
> 	 
> 	 
> 	I have a Virtualbox Appliance of soas-3-Mirabelle(RC3) available
> for
> 	downloading and testing
> 	updated 5/19/2010
> 	 
> 	Appliance root password: root=sugarroot
> 	 
> 	This appliance is ready to run "firstboot" (agree/user
> name/password/tz/etc)
> 	* installed with liveinst(Anaconda) to 8GB Virtual Disk in 2GB
> slices
> 	 
> 	 Download these 3 files:
> 	 http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-v3-Mirabelle.mf
> 	 http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-v3-Mirabelle.ovf
> 	 http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmdk
> 	 
> 	*Start  Sun Virtualbox ( I used: Version 3.1.5 r59339 for
> export)
> 	Top Left Corner of window:<file><Import Appliance>
> 	<Choose> (to find 3 downloaded files you just downloaded )
> 	select: soas-v3-Mirabelle.ovf
> 	<Appliance Import Settings> Window appears:
> 	*Correct line: "Guest OS Type" to OS:linux  Version:fedora
> (click on
> 	Other/unknown it is a  dropdown box)
> 	*Agree to GPL license
> 	*<Import>
> 	 
> 	*start sugar
> 	 
> 	Notes:
> 	1-) record has no video as VB not configured for camera
> 	2-) record has no sound on my ACER Aspire One
> 	 
> 	 
> 	Tom Gilliard
> 	satellit
> 	 
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> 	--
> 	Walter Bender
> 	Sugar Labs
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