See the posting below with inline suggestions. The posting was to the IAEP mailing list for the general Sugar audience. I've copied the discussion here to the SoaS list for technical followup. Perhaps we could interest some Google Code-In or GSOC applicants to innovate on the installation issues.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 12:18 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 107, Issue 15 To: i...@lists.sugarlabs.org Consider an potential adopter who wants to try out Sugar. As Caryl knows from Scale, an adopter wants to know: 1 - What are the capabilities of Sugar, what are its strengths, who is using it, are there success stories, testimonials from users? 2 - How is it supported? If I were to deploy it and needed help, is it available? 3 - How can I install it on my PC to try it out? Going to the Sugarlabs website, the first screen features: Activities, Wiki, Social Help. The next statement describes Sugar as a collection of tools. Being persistent, if you scroll down several screens, you get to a block: Get Sugar featuring SOAS and Gnu/Linux. For Sugar on a Stick, I am directed to another page. It starts out well - how to make a stick with Windows (but 7). The instructions say to download 650MB and burn a CD. At this point the instructions become incoherent. They say to mount a 2GB or more stick and then boot from the CD and start running Sugar from it using the Terminal activity and su. Then I am told that a change in Fedora 24 (the adopter is saying 'what's that?') requires the use of the command: sudo dnf install livecd-tools No potential adopter would persist even to this point. >> We should go back to including the livecd-tools package in SoaS and we should also copy the livecd-iso-to-disk script to the /LiveOS/ folder as was previously standard in Fedora, because installing SoaS with persistent storage is essential for the project goal of having a resumable Sugar environment in your pocket. This is something Peter Robinson, our SoaS packager, can accomplish or advise us on. The other panel claims Sugar is available on most Gnu/Linux distributions. The accompanying instructions from the links on this panel are even more intimidating and provide evidence of lack of support for Sugar. In fact, I believe that Ubuntu 16.04 enables yum install of Sugar 0.110. This should be featured. Like Pixel, I would like to see a current Sugar image available for download which can be transferred to a usb stick by a single dd command. This stick would operate as SOAS but also support installation in an available block of hard drive on any amd_64 machine. >> This is currently available, but not featured in our instructions as such an installation lacks persistence of user/learner Activities between boots. However, it is the easiest way to demonstrate a live SoaS system. Instructions should be updated. A second image ideally would be installable as a Window application with a supported Windows installer (like wubi did). Finally, there should be a Debian image which can be copied to an SD card and booted by a Raspberry Pi 3 (and possibly 2). Finally, our hypothetical adopter should find this 'get Sugar' information on the main screen, not down six screens. Tony On 02/15/2017 11:20 PM, iaep-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org wrote: Message: 3 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:15:05 +0000 From: Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> <cbige...@hotmail.com> To: Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de> <b...@freudenbergs.de> Cc: IAEP SugarLabs <i...@lists.sugarlabs.org> <i...@lists.sugarlabs.org> Subject: Re: [IAEP] pixel Message-ID: <cy4pr19mb1061668d2fc5eef8cbbcd2cdcc...@cy4pr19mb1061.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <cy4pr19mb1061668d2fc5eef8cbbcd2cdcc...@cy4pr19mb1061.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" +1 for Tony's comment! Sent from my iPhone On Feb 15, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de<mailto:b...@freudenbergs.de> <b...@freudenbergs.de>> wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net<mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net> <tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote: This is what I hoped Sugarlabs would do: https://opensource.com/article/17/1/try-raspberry-pis-pixel-os-your-pc Tony Isn't that exactly what SoaS does? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation - Bert - ______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) i...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep For those interested alleviating these frustrations, the following links to previous efforts provide some background: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Resources <goog_127419843> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Goals https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/TODO --Fred
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