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David;<br>
<br>
It seems to me, from these discussions, that you may not be actually
testing the reliability of the USB's.<br>
This is if you are testing a live fs. <br>
The unknown in the picture is the size and presence of the overlay and
when it will be exhaused.<br>
This may, as Doug suggests, be what causes early "failures" in your
testing of strawberry written to USB with<br>
live-usb creator or <i>livecd-iso-to-disk.sh </i><br>
<br>
Contrast this with the latest .img files I have been constructing.<br>
These are case e) :<br>
<pre wrap="">e) installed (non-liveos) on ext2/3/4(/ubifs?/btrfs?) on a usb/flash/nand
partition
</pre>
(I am attaching a screen shot of a type e) USB. SD12kdeSUGAR4G<br>
======================================<br>
I used the F12-alpha-i686-KDE-live CD to install to a 4GB SD<br>
<br>
<i>/dev/sd(x)1 /boot ext2 200 MiB with boot flag<br>
/dev/sd(x)2 / ext4 3.5 GiB<br>
<br>
then I did the following commands in terminal:<br>
<br>
yum install @sugar-desktop<br>
yum upgrade @sugar-desktop<br>
yum upgrade metacity (want XXXXX.9)<br>
<br>
I then logged in to sugar at the KDE switcher screen<br>
entered name and color<br>
opened sugar terminal<br>
<br>
<b># the following makes a Sugar only USB:</b><br>
<br>
yum remove @kde-desktop<br>
yum install @sugar-desktop (to reinstall needed files)<br>
</i>yum install gedit
<br>
(after gedit is installed:)
<br>
gedit /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas
<br>
<br>
* change: (to true and add sugar)
<br>
<br>
--snip--
<br>
<key>daemon/AutomaticLoginEnable</key>
<br>
<signature>b</signature>
<br>
<default>true</default>
<br>
</schema>
<br>
<schema>
<br>
<key>daemon/AutomaticLogin</key>
<br>
<signature>s</signature>
<br>
<default>sugar</default>
<br>
</schema> --snip--
<br>
<br>
exit root
<br>
rm -rf ~/.sugar
<br>
su -
<br>
pswd:xxx
<br>
shutdown -h now<br>
<br>
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This is quite different than a strawberry.iso installed with<br>
<br>
<i>livecd-iso-to-disk.sh <br>
<br>
</i>Which I think is case b)<br>
<i><br>
NOTE<br>
( These need a version number as the contents keep changing ie;<br>
there is a new different one for the soas-2-beta.iso)<br>
<br>
Versioning of these is ESSENTIAL as use of an old one can cause
problems.<br>
<br>
ALSO:<br>
</i>Another completely different case to be looked at is a Sugar
VMPlayer Appliance where the files are copied to a Fat16 or Fat32<br>
formatted USB/SD. <br>
VMWorkstation files are constructed of (expandable up to 2GB slices)
for Compatibility.<br>
These should behave quite differently when tested.<br>
<br>
Cordially<br>
<br>
Tom Gilliard<br>
satellit<br>
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