[Sugar-devel] [sugar] Sbuntu 8.10: Sugar for Ubuntu Live USB, updated

[Walter Bender]

I tried installing your patches on a fresh copy of Intrepid (with the
hopes that my network neighborhood would start working). Matchbox had
an error and wouldn't install. I ignored that error and tried to log
into a Sugar session, only to get the following, seemingly unrelated
error:

/usr/sugar/shell/model/network.py, line 23 in <module> from sugar
import dispatch
Import Error: cannot import

I had previously installed 0.82.x from the main Intrepid repositories,
but presumably I have some incompatible mix of versions. 0.82.x worked
(with a few bugs). Any clues?

thanks.

-walter


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Morgan Collett <morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 18:48, Simon Peter <probono at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have updated sbuntu (Sugar for Ubuntu Live USB) to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid
>> Ibex). This solves many issues that were present in the earlier version.
>>
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/
>>
>> Basically, you just need to add one file to a stock Ubuntu Live USB system
>> made from  the official ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso and you will have a
>> Ubuntu 8.10 Sugar Live USB system.
>>
>> Let me address some questions and concerns that came up on the Sugar mailing
>> list earlier:
>>
>> Caroline Meeks asked:
>>> Is there a way I can I copy my USB and make the new one bootable
>>> so I don't have to go through the whole process again?
>>
>> If you have more than one USB stick with the exact same size, you can clone
>> the entire stick using the dd command. Boot a Linux distribution, attach the
>> source and the target USB sticks. Find out their device names. In the
>> following example I will assume that the source device is /dev/sdb and the
>> target device is /dev/sdc. CAUTION! These names will likely be different on
>> your system and using the following command is DANGEROUS as it will WIPE the
>> target device. Unmount both sticks. Then as root, run:
>> dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=8M
>> This will clone the contents of the source stick (sdb) to the target stick
>> (sdc). This is a standard procedure that should work with any kind of
>> bootable USB stick.
>>
>> Walter Bender asked:
>>> I've tried with a 1 GB and a 2 GB USB. In both cases, it complains
>>> that I don't have enough space. Anyone have any experience getting
>>> this to work? Also, creating the USB image was **very** slow.
>>
>> These were known bugs in the liveusb tool, but starting with Ubuntu 8.10,
>> Ubuntu includes a different tool called usb-creator (System ->
>> Administration -> Create a USB startup disk).
>>
>> Caroline Meeks asked:
>>> This particular setup doesn't let you escape out of Sugar
>>> back down into Ubuntu as far as I could figure out.
>>
>> Sbuntu is configured to launch Sugar by default. But if you log out from
>> sugar (press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), you get the Ubuntu (GDM) login screen
>> which lets you choose your session type from the settings menu in the
>> bottom-left corner. Select "Gnome", and login as user "ubuntu" with no
>> password. This will give you the standard Gnome desktop, with the Sugar
>> Emulator available from the applications menu.
>>
>> Caroline Meeks asked:
>>> Please provide instructions on exactly what to download.
>>> I picked liveusb_0.1.1_all.deb
>>> Then also provide instructions on exactly what the user should do
>>> to install it.
>>
>> This step is no longer necessary since starting with Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu
>> itself includes a tool called usb-creator (System -> Administration ->
>> Create a USB startup disk).
>>
>> Caroline Meeks asked:
>>> If you use the persistence option, you need to replace casper/initrd.gz
>>
>> This step is no longer necessary since the bug has been fixed in Ubuntu
>> 8.10.
>>
>> Caroline Meeks asked:
>>> Add the file sugar.squashfs to the directory casper/ on the USB stick
>>> Again the write protection on Casper made this more of a challenge
>>> then might be expected.
>>
>> If you want to modify the USB stick you are currently running from, do:
>> sudo mount /cdrom -o remount,rw
>> Starting with Ubuntu 8.10, this will remount the USB stick writable by root.
>>
>> Tomeu Vizoso asked:
>>> Have already been any discussions about adding Subuntu to the list of
>>> official Ubuntu derivatives for the next release?
>>
>> Sbuntu is a customization (add-on file) to an existing Ubuntu Live system,
>> not a derivative distribution. (This has advantages... you can update the
>> sugar portion by exchanging 1 file, without having to remaster the
>> underlying Ubuntu distribution itself. Also the download is much smaller.)
>>
>> Caroline Meeks asked:
>>> Is there an easier way to help people create USBs?
>>
>> If there is enough demand, one could make a Sugar activity that would clone
>> the currently running USB stick to a blank USB stick.
>>
>> Please report Sbuntu issues to me, and issues related to usb-creator to
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator
>>
>> Of course, ideas for improvement are welcome!
>
> [Oops, I meant to actually comment, not just quote Simon's email...]
>
> Simon, you can find some updated Sugar packages in the Ubuntu Sugar
> Team's PPA: https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam/+archive
>
> I'm updating those now to include support for Network Manager 0.7, so
> that Neighborhood View will support connecting to access points again.
>
> Regards
> Morgan
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