[Sugar-devel] hello from Nexcopy - Recycle USB

[Walter Bender]

thanks. I'll test it in the AM too.

regards.

-walter

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Thomas Gilliard
<satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
> On 01/20/2013 12:38 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
>>
>> 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;
>
> I am uploading this livecd-iso-to-disk 2 GB .img to sunjammer as it too
> complicated to make it work:
>   (I took most of today trying to get the commands correct)
>
>    http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8_litd.img
>
>  it will be uploaded in abt 3 hrs
>  I will then download it and do a write to USB to confirm it works
>
> *Write to USB
> I have tested it (Boots and is persistent) on #sugar IRC-10 on 2 netbooks
> and 1 laptop with a 2 USB GB copy and a 4 GB USB copy using:
>
>  # dd if=Soas_8_litd.img of=/dev/sdb bs=2M
>  956+0 records in
>  956+0 records out
>  2004877312 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 345.459 s, 5.8 MB/s    (abt 5.75 minutes)
>
> Cordially;
> Tom Gilliard
> satellit on #sugar freenode IRC
>
> This is the terminal output of the command as it writes a 2 GB USB with
> persistence:
>  (kudos to fgross)
>>
>> [root at localhost Downloads]# livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr
>> --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 500 --delete-home --unencrypted-home
>> Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso /dev/sdb1
>> Verifying image...
>> /home/satellit/Downloads/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso:
>> 94a4f79c75d05bb627cdfa1585de4f35
>> Fragment sums:
>> c24abf9bbe22b11386e232ce89163fa9ed834241aeb2dec29ee79f55f5f6
>> Fragment count: 20
>> Press [Esc] to abort check.
>> Checking: 100.0%
>>
>> The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
>>
>> It is OK to use this media.
>> WARNING: THIS WILL DESTROY ANY DATA ON /dev/sdb!!!
>> Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort
>>
>> /dev/sdb: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (dos): 55 aa
>> Waiting for devices to settle...
>> mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
>> Filesystem label=LIVE
>> OS type: Linux
>> Block size=4096 (log=2)
>> Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
>> Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
>> 122400 inodes, 488704 blocks
>> 24435 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
>> First data block=0
>> Maximum filesystem blocks=503316480
>> 15 block groups
>> 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
>> 8160 inodes per group
>> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
>>     32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912
>>
>> Allocating group tables: done
>> Writing inode tables: done
>> Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
>> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
>>
>> Copying live image to target device.
>> squashfs.img
>>    540581888 100%   44.00MB/s    0:00:11 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
>>
>> sent 540647953 bytes  received 31 bytes  43251838.72 bytes/sec
>> total size is 540581888  speedup is 1.00
>> osmin.img
>>         8192 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
>>
>> sent 8265 bytes  received 31 bytes  16592.00 bytes/sec
>> total size is 8192  speedup is 0.99
>> Updating boot config file
>> Initializing persistent overlay file
>> 0+0 records in
>> 0+0 records out
>> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.9436e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
>> Initializing persistent /home
>> 0+0 records in
>> 0+0 records out
>> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.4185e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
>> Formatting unencrypted /home
>> mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
>> Discarding device blocks: done
>> Filesystem label=
>> OS type: Linux
>> Block size=1024 (log=0)
>> Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
>> Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
>> 128016 inodes, 512000 blocks
>> 25600 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
>> First data block=1
>> Maximum filesystem blocks=67633152
>> 63 block groups
>> 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
>> 2032 inodes per group
>> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
>>     8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409
>>
>> Allocating group tables: done
>> Writing inode tables: done
>> Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
>> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
>>
>> tune2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
>> Setting maximal mount count to -1
>> Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
>> Installing boot loader
>> /media/tgttmp.neiLPH/syslinux is device /dev/sdb1
>> Target device is now set up with a Live image!
>> [root at localhost Downloads]#
>
>



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