On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 13:01 +0200, Coltivare Fiori wrote: > The first real problem that I found looking into Sugar was that I was > not able to create a SoaS following the instructions at > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux > > This looks important to me, because I think that it is hard to imagine > what Sugar is without seeing one running, and to have one run, the > preferred way is a SoaS. > > I eventually solved my problems by using (with the USB key mounted) the > "--format" option for livecd-iso-to-disk, like this > > /media/soas/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --format > --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 800 --delete-home > --unencrypted-home /path/to/Fedora-17-i686-Live-SoaS.iso /dev/sdX >
Think if you use --delete-home you will always have a fresh new sugar installation upon reboot, as the home directory will be will be re-created. As a test can you boot SoaS set the name/color, do some actions that write to the journal, then reboot and note if the journal entries are preserved. Jerry > > Now, I think that if one uses a key for SoaS, it would be simple and > clear to state that the key should be just formatted when installing > SoaS. Therefore, I think that some instructions now at > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux are confusing, and I > would like to replace them with a suggestion to use this option, > "format". Would I be right? Can I go on? > > Thank you for any advice. > > Ernesto > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
