[Sugar-devel] Recommendations?

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Neuwirth Erich
<erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> I just created SoaS SD-cards for my two seven year old grandsons.
> The original instruction on the Sugarlabs Wiki did not work for me, so put the description of what I needed to do additionally in by blog at
> http://blogs.neuwirth.priv.at/software
>
> Nor I want to create a VM on my Mac to be able to play around myself.
> There are a few options to do that, e.g. I could start with SoaS or With Trisquel.
> Any recommendations what I should use in a VM?
> And any recommendation what size for the different parts I should configure?
> livecd-iso-to-disk allows to set overlay-size and home-size.
> What are reasonable values when one does not have the 4BG restriction if an SD card?

For a VM I would take the SoaS iso and mount it as a CD drive on the
VM platform you use and boot it. From there in a terminal you can then
run "liveinst" which will allow you to do a proper install to the
virtual disk.

Peter