[Sugar-devel] hello from Nexcopy - Recycle USB

[Walter Bender]

Replication is not the issue (we have Nexcopy, after all). So a 2GB
image with some persistent storage, even if liveinstall doesn't work,
would be the target.

-walter

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Gilliard
<satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>



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