[SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical

[Thomas C Gilliard]

I would love help on this project.

I still think that a DVD is needed for remote locations,"sneakernet" 
installs, and for teachers behind a firewall.
Any Ideas would be appreciated. On the new DVD I am including .pdf's of 
the Floss manuals (with links)
That form on a DVD seems to me to be the most appropriate form for 
deployments.
a DVD.iso is a nice, cheap way to distribute sugar on a stick.

Attached is a preliminary SugarCreationKit 0.8 (contents file)
Suggestions on content greatly appreciated..

Tom Gilliard
satellit

Edward Cherlin wrote:
> 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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