[Sugar-devel] hello from Nexcopy - Recycle USB

[Walter Bender]

Is there no longer a 2GB image available?

-walter

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Thomas Gilliard
<satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
> On 01/18/2013 06:57 PM, Greg Morris, Nexcopy wrote:
>>
>> Ok. Great. I can send them to that address.
>>
>> Waiting for download link and we'll get them done Tues and ship out.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Greg
>> ••••••••••••••••••••
>> Sorry for the short eMail, sent from my iPhone.
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey. That's great!!
>>>
>>> I'm CCing Peter and Thom to see what image they recommend.
>>>
>>> Maybe the best address would be:
>>>
>>> Walter Bender
>>> 22 Central St.
>>> Newton, MA 02466
>>>
>>> Many thanks.
>>>
>>> -walter
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Greg Morris - Nexcopy
>>> <gregm at nexcopy.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Walter,
>>>>
>>>> I hope this email finds you well and happy new year!
>>>>
>>>> We have about 200 drives we can send you.
>>>>
>>>> -- can you provide the most current download link for Sugar?
>>>> -- can you provide an address to send the USB sticks
>>>>
>>>> If there is anything new you can report...I'd be happy to hear it.
>>>>
>>>> Respectfully,
>>>> Greg
>>>>
>>>> GREG MORRIS | NEXCOPY INC.
>>>> P: 949 481 6478 X 112 | email: gregm at nexcopy.com | web: www.nexcopy.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Walter Bender
>>> Sugar Labs
>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
> Walter;
> Look at this tutorial [1]
>
>  [1]
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/How_to_make_a_SoaS.img_file_for_repeated_installs_to_4_GB_USB%27s
>
>  Download a prebuilt .img file:
> http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8.img   3.7G download
>
> This command can be repeated for multiple USB's:
>
> Note it takes about 10 minutes to write to each 4 GB USB
>
> use "mount" command to confirm USB device name and edit: of=/dev/sd(x)
>
> [root at localhost Desktop]# dd if=Soas_8.img of=/dev/sdc bs=2M
> 1912+0 records in
> 1912+0 records out
> 4009754624 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 587.133 s, 6.8 MB/s
> [root at localhost Desktop]#
>
>
>
> This is a real netinstall of f18 sugar-desktop to a 4 GB USB with firstboot
> not yet run*
> It boots from the USB once written (see tutorial
> root=sugarroot
> *user name and colors are set in firstboot
>
> Tom Gilliard
> satellit
>
>
>



-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org