[Sugar-devel] hello from Nexcopy - Recycle USB

[Thomas Gilliard]

On 01/21/2013 07:16 AM, Greg Morris, Nexcopy wrote:
> We don't need dd. we already have binary copiers. You should really go to our site
>
> www.nexcopy.com
>
> Just give me the IMG file.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
> ••••••••••••••••••••
> Sorry for the short eMail, sent from my iPhone.
>
> On Jan 21, 2013, at 2:10 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can create a customer image for a 2Gb stick with some other fixes
>> pulled in that can just be dd:ed onto the stick by nexcopy but I won't
>> be able to do it until next weekend.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> 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 Bender
>>> Sugar Labs
>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
Persistent .img files:
As listed in the previous e-mails:

  http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8_litd.img   1.9G
   dd if=Soas_8_litd.img of=/dev/sd(x)* bs=2M

  http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8.img   3.7G
   dd if=Soas_8.img of=/dev/sd(x)* bs=2M

Tom Gilliard
satellit #sugar

Reference:
  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/How_to_make_a_SoaS.img_file_for_repeated_installs_to_4_GB_USB%27s