[Sugar-devel] About installing Sugar on a stick... with "--format"

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 07:15:48 EDT 2012


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Coltivare Fiori
<coltivarefiori at connettivo.net> wrote:
> The first real problem that I found looking into Sugar was that I was
> not able to create a SoaS following the instructions at
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux
>
> This looks important to me, because I think that it is hard to imagine
> what Sugar is without seeing one running, and to have one run, the
> preferred way is a SoaS.
>
> I eventually solved my problems by using (with the USB key mounted) the
> "--format" option for livecd-iso-to-disk, like this
>
> /media/soas/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --format
> --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 800 --delete-home
> --unencrypted-home /path/to/Fedora-17-i686-Live-SoaS.iso /dev/sdX
>
>
> Now, I think that if one uses a key for SoaS, it would be simple and
> clear to state that the key should be just formatted when installing
> SoaS. Therefore, I think that some instructions now at
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux are confusing, and I
> would like to replace them with a suggestion to use this option,
> "format". Would I be right? Can I go on?

Sounds reasonable to me. Please put an explanation mark that when they
do this option that it will format the entire stick and that they will
lose any information on the stick.

Regards,
Peter


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