[Sugar-devel] hello from Nexcopy - Recycle USB

[Thomas Gilliard]

On 01/20/2013 08:06 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> 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]#
>>
>
>
Walter;
Downloading it now.
FYI:
Here is link to it I added to the the the tutorial:


http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/How_to_make_a_SoaS.img_file_for_repeated_installs_to_4_GB_USB%27s#Download_a_Soas_8_litd.img_file

Cordially;

Tom Gilliard
satellit on #sugar