Ok! I got this to work. thank you Ubuntu developers but talk about screwing in your own seat!
Is there an easier way to help people create USBs? On SLAX we created a zip file then there was a boot file (2 versions actually one for linux and one for windows) that is run to make the stick bootable: http://schoolkey.net/wiki/creating-keys Is there a way I can I copy my USB and make the new one bootable so I don't have to go through the whole process again? The USB boots up to Sugar, which is what I want. Is there a way for me to also access the underlying Ubuntu? Here is my feedback on making the existing directions more friendly. 1. Download the stock ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso<http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso>and burn it Yup, I can do this. 1. Boot from this CD and from there, use LiveUSB<http://klik.atekon.de/liveusb>to copy the system to USB stick (use a stick with 1-2 GB capacity as problems have been reported with larger ones) Ok so when you follow this link you eventually end up at this page. http://ppa.launchpad.net/probono/ubuntu/pool/main/l/liveusb/ Please provide instructions on exactly what to download. I picked liveusb_0.1.1_all.deb<http://ppa.launchpad.net/probono/ubuntu/pool/main/l/liveusb/liveusb_0.1.1_all.deb> Then also provide instructions on exactly what the user should do to install it. I fumbled around and eventually it opened, but I couldn't actually tell someone else how to do it. Then provide instruction on exactly which options to set. I picked both persistence and flash and the flash ended up giving me an error. 1. If you use the persistence option, you need to replace casper/initrd.gz on the stick with the bugfixed initrd.gz<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Eprobono/sbuntu/initrd.gz>provided here. The Casper direction is write protected. Please provide instructions on how to deal with that. What is this? Why am I doing it? 1. Add the file sugar.squashfs<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Eprobono/sbuntu/sugar.squashfs>to the directory casper/ on the USB stick Again the write protection on Casper made this more of a challenge then might be expected. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:19 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > It looks like our friends at Ubuntu have been hard at work building a > Subuntu live usb. Simon Peter, also know as probono, has posted information > on downloading and building the usb at > > http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Eprobono/sbuntu/> > > Thanks to the Ubuntu SugarTeam for packaging Sugar on Ubuntu and to Probono > for building the sugar.squashfs. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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