Forwarded conversation Subject: [Sugar-devel] About installing Sugar on a stick... with "--format" ------------------------
From: *Coltivare Fiori* <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:01 AM To: [email protected] 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 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 ---------- From: *Peter Robinson* <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:15 AM To: Coltivare Fiori <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Coltivare Fiori <[email protected]> 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 > > > 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? Sounds reasonable to me. Please put an explanation mark that when they do this option that it will format the entire stick and that they will lose any information on the stick. Regards, Peter ---------- From: *Coltivare Fiori* <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:49 AM To: Peter Robinson <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] On 09/10/2012 13:15, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Coltivare Fiori [...] > Sounds reasonable to me. Please put an explanation mark that when they > do this option that it will format the entire stick and that they will > lose any information on the stick. > > Regards, > Peter > > Ok, done editing http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux . Thanks! Ernesto ************** The warning should also include this reference, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device When formatting is necessary, using the --format --msdos options may mitigate that risk, (and leaves the device usable in other consumer electronics, such as cameras, etc.) --Fred
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