Something to help access to Sugar: https://etcher.io/ "Etcher is a powerful OS image flasher built with web technologies to ensure flashing an SDCard or USB drive is a pleasant and safe experience. It protects you from accidentally writing to your hard-drives, ensures every byte of data was written correctly and much more." Open source, Mac, Linux, Windows.
Sean [email protected] From: "Tony Anderson" <[email protected]> To: "iaep" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 9:18:23 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 107, Issue 15 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. 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 transfered 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. 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, [email protected] wrote: Message: 3 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:15:05 +0000 From: Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> To: Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> Cc: IAEP SugarLabs <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IAEP] pixel Message-ID: <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 < [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Tony Anderson < [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 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!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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