[SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical

[John Tierney]

Hi Tom,
 
Thanks for the link and info on Sugar on a Stick Creation Kit. I downloaded

and was able to sucessfully burn. There is a lot of great resources included, 

if we can translate/package into a slightly less Technical Format I think it 

could be very helpful and will allow new users to engage Sugar and become 

distributors of Sugar as well as participating members of the community. 
 
For myself and the audience who will be receiving the SoaS Creation Kit DVD,
the present layout is slightly overwhelming. So I would like to do a little collaborative
effort over the next week to try to put the files in a delivery format that would allow
the recipient to have a clear and successful path from First interacting with Sugar,
Secondly becoming an expert at creating SoaS through Fedora USB Creator, and then
with a little introduction to Command Line we can turn them into SugarClone stars.
 
 
What I have done below is to reorder and try to group files. This to allow new users to
have a clear presentation of what they are, what they are used for. Big piece that needs
to be added is the USB Creator and instructions how to use.
 
My belief is we presently have most of the pieces of the puzzle for this, with a little polish
we can put together Creation Kit with an easily navaigable landscape. I think one of the
first documents should be a what's in the creation kit, with short explanation of what it's
used for. Also a comment on level of difficulty might help.
 
Thanks for taking this Creation Kit up. I think we are pretty close to having something
pretty cool, which will be a big bonus to our outreach efforts and ability to attract new
resources. Look forward to collaborating on this.

2-) Download and burn the DVD: 

  http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarCreatonKit07.iso
 
****Was able to sucessfully download-Took about 7hrs

This has pdf.s of the Floss Manuals and Many other source and learning materials :
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==What is on this DVD?==
   version .07

* What is Sugar.pdf
(http://en.flossmanuals.net/sugar)
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*-Read Me First Floss Manuals {Folder}
http://en.flossmanuals.net
(Browse)
(Chat)
(funWith the Journal)
(Make Your Own Activities)
>How to write sugar activities by James Simmons
(Write)
(Record)
(The Terminal)
(Turtle art)
(Write)
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*-The Undiscoverable Features of Sugar.pdf
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable
125mb
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Can all of these .txt be turned into PDF's? Maybe it's
just me when I open in notepad the text is all together
and not very inviting to a new user.(Overwhelming).
*-HOW TO MAKE an ISO from a CD or DVD.txt

*-How to Make a USB Stick.txt

*-How To Sugarize applications.txt

*-Working with Live USB's.txt

*CONTENTS OF DVD.txt
(listing of DVD Contents-THIS DOCUMENT)
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*-image-writer-mac
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/image-writer-mac
 6.8k
(Intel Mac-use to make a non persistent USB from an .iso file)

*-image-writer
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/image-writer
7.9k 
(use to make a non persistent USB from an .iso file)
 
(Is there expalnation and instructions for the use of these files?
Who needs them? Why? What will they accomplish?
These may be very important since so many Educators use
Macs. The fact it makes non persistent would they then be only
for Demo purposes?)
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SoaS Strawberry Folder
*-soas-1-strawberry.iso
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-1-strawberry.iso
380m
(Burn this to a CD and Boot with it)
*-soas-1-boot.iso
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-1-boot.iso
8.4m
(Use as CD to Boot strawberry v1 USB for older PC's)
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SoaS Blueberry Folder
*-soas-2-blueberry.iso
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-2-blueberry.iso
380m
(Burn this to a CD and Boot with it)
*-soas-2-boot.iso
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-2-boot.iso
14m
(Use as CD to Boot Blueberry v2 USB for older PC's)
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Beta SoaS Mirabelle Folder-(I will need a Creation Kit image
by end of this week to be able and burn and ship to Purdue-will
there be a Mirabelle image we could include?)
*-soas-3-20100319.iso
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/3/soas-3-20100319.iso
454m
(Stable f13 spin with minimal number of applications)
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Will there be a Boot cd iso for Mirabelle?


*-livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
21.k
(What exactly is this and is there an explanation and some instructions
how to use)
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*-ASLO.iso
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/ASLO-xo.tar.gz
566m 
(111 application.xo files copy to a USB and drag drop into sugar journal to install them to Sugar)
 
***Did create the disk but I'm not exactly sure how to use it. Needs some simple documentation***
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* SugarClone {folder}
  http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/
(script files for making a customized live USB Self-replicating)
( superclone.pdf)
( modified_livecd-iso-to-disk)
( newSugarStick)
( SugarClone)
( transferSugarImage)
( Duplicating SoaS with customization.txt)

*-How to Make a USB Stick.txt
(instructions on how to use the above script)
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*-PREPARATION OF AN OPERATIONAL SoaS USB KEY
(Jean Thiéry [Jean.Thiery(ò)ModLibre.info][http://ModLibre.info/]
Member of OLPC-France [http://olpc-france.org])
 
Can this be in PDF format?
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For the Creation Kit I will distribute I think I would keep these off for now. If
recipients have made it this far to be able to truly use these, they will have
a set up on their computer and understand processes enough to download
themselves

*-soas-2-blueberry-direct-cleared-3GB.img.xz 
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-3-20100319-2GBUSB-Corrected.img.bz2
440mb
(stable 4 GB USB img file for Blueberry with ext3 file structure)
use this command in root terminal to write: dd if=xxxxx.img of=/dev/sd(*)  
* path to your USB BE Certain this is correct, VERY DANGEROUS!

*-Fedora-12-i386-netinst.iso
(Minimal CD to make your own custom fedora USB or Hard Disk install REQUIRES HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNETCTION TO USE)
 Note: A USB install may take 6+ hrs at high speed
 

 
Appreciate the Collaboration!
 
John Tierney

 		 	   		  
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