[Sugar-devel] hello from Nexcopy - Recycle USB

[Thomas Gilliard]

On 01/20/2013 11:20 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> 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;
The problem is that the command "liveinst" does not install to USB at 
the moment
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896687
So it is now only possible to create a USB stick with the dd command:

  [root at localhost RC4]# dd if=Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso 
of=/dev/sd(x)* bs=2M
  288+0 records in
  288+0 records out
  603979776 bytes (604 MB) copied, 177.758 s, 3.4 MB/s

of=/dev/sd(x)* use mount command to get device name of the mounted USB

-Note that it will have no persistence

The 4 GB .img file has persistence as it is a regular ext4 netinstall of 
Sugar-desktop to USB (Thus larger in size)

  http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8.img   3.7G download

It would be easier to just use the above command from fedora 18 terminal 
repeatedly on each new 2 GB USB using the downloaded file;
  http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/18/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso
-Note it only takes about 3 minutes per USB  (177.758 s)

Cordially;

Tom Gilliard
satellit on #sugar