[SoaS] Direct SoaS test-drive

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> here's a proposal to help us move forward from the current impasse. Our
> discussion seems to be based on much speculation rather than personal
> experience. So, why don't interested people to take the time to download
> and test the actual thing?
>
> Hoping that a mere proof of concept wouldn't require a trademark
> license, I've uploaded a dump of my USB stick here:
>
>   http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img.xz
>
> To install on any writable block media of 2GB or more, just do:
>
>   
>   unxz < soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdX
>   
see also:
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Blueberrycleared.vdi.tar.gz ( for 
Virtualbox)
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Blueberrycleared.txt
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/How_to_write_USB.txt
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/AutoLogin.txt  ( to make it do 
autologon)

They work well.....
Tom Gilliard
satellit
> Voilà. Should be easier and faster than running livecd-iso-to-disk...
> and it works with any half-decent OS, as long as it provides dd and xz,
> of course.
>
> The LZMA compressed image of a 2GB stick is only 416MB. I'm willing to
> bet that a 4GB version would be only slightly bigger. The image was
> created using the procedure I described in the post with subject "Direct
> SoaS". Something equivalent could have been obtained more easily with
> liveinst or the ZyX-installer.
>
>