Mel Chua wrote:
......snip......... > Tabitha, if you have a moment to help us chase this down - I'm trying to > figure out what happened here, and how to fix it. As best as I can tell, > you started on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mirabelle > and clicked the "download" button, which gets you to > http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads > 03:23 < mchua> and on there, we say "For a guided walkthrough of the > process of creating and using your stick, including on non-Fedora > systems or using virtualization, No mention of virtualizations (virtualbox or vmplayer) here..... > read the Creation Kit." > > The Creation Kit has instructions for Linux distributions, > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/creation-kit/sect-Creation_Kit-Preparation-Linux_Instructions-Other.html > > - do these work for you? Unetbootin makes a non-persistent USB, I believe..... This leaves a Netbook (no CD) running Ubuntu, out in the cold, unless they make a non-persistent stick with unetbootin, then boot it and download in sugar-terminal: "yum install liveusb-creator" and make a 2nd persistent stick with it. (quite convoluted) > (Are those instructions broken? Not findable?) > > --Mel > > [0] To elaborate - It makes sense to offer as few options as possible, > since we can't maintain lots of different install paths - every release, > we can make sure liveusb-creator works and unetbootin work, but we can't > necessarly test 15 scripts and 4 different graphical iso-to-usb programs > on 6 operating systems. I believe liveusb-creator was chosen because > it's a graphical option and a lot of our intended userbase (teachers, > etc) are intimidated by command line options like livecd-iso-to-disk.sh. > FYI: The "Get Sugar" link on the wiki still has links to these install methods. > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > Cordially; Tom Gilliard satellit _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
