[SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical

[Edward Cherlin]

Should we move the SOAS Creation Kit guide into FLOSS Manuals? I will
be happy to join in a book sprint there. I have lots of experience
reading engineering documents and producing manuals for novices. We
have many other editors with similar experience in making sure that
the resulting manual is at the level of the intended users.

http://en.flossmanuals.net/write

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 16:26, John Tierney <jtis4stx at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :
> ----------------------------------------------------
> ==What is on this DVD?==
>    version .07
>
> * What is Sugar.pdf
> (http://en.flossmanuals.net/sugar)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *-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)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *-The Undiscoverable Features of Sugar.pdf
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable
> 125mb
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *-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?)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *-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***
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> * 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)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *-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?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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