On 01/20/2013 12:38 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
Replication is not the issue (we have Nexcopy, after all). So a 2GB
image with some persistent storage, even if liveinstall doesn't work,
would be the target.
-walter
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Gilliard
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 01/20/2013 11:20 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
Is there no longer a 2GB image available?
-walter
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Thomas Gilliard
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 01/18/2013 06:57 PM, Greg Morris, Nexcopy wrote:
Ok. Great. I can send them to that address.
Waiting for download link and we'll get them done Tues and ship out.
Regards,
Greg
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Sorry for the short eMail, sent from my iPhone.
On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey. That's great!!
I'm CCing Peter and Thom to see what image they recommend.
Maybe the best address would be:
Walter Bender
22 Central St.
Newton, MA 02466
Many thanks.
-walter
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Greg Morris - Nexcopy
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Walter,
I hope this email finds you well and happy new year!
We have about 200 drives we can send you.
-- can you provide the most current download link for Sugar?
-- can you provide an address to send the USB sticks
If there is anything new you can report...I'd be happy to hear it.
Respectfully,
Greg
GREG MORRIS | NEXCOPY INC.
P: 949 481 6478 X 112 | email: [email protected] | web:
www.nexcopy.com
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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
Walter;
Look at this tutorial [1]
[1]
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/How_to_make_a_SoaS.img_file_for_repeated_installs_to_4_GB_USB%27s
Download a prebuilt .img file:
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8.img 3.7G download
This command can be repeated for multiple USB's:
Note it takes about 10 minutes to write to each 4 GB USB
use "mount" command to confirm USB device name and edit: of=/dev/sd(x)
[root@localhost Desktop]# dd if=Soas_8.img of=/dev/sdc bs=2M
1912+0 records in
1912+0 records out
4009754624 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 587.133 s, 6.8 MB/s
[root@localhost Desktop]#
This is a real netinstall of f18 sugar-desktop to a 4 GB USB with
firstboot
not yet run*
It boots from the USB once written (see tutorial
root=sugarroot
*user name and colors are set in firstboot
Tom Gilliard
satellit
Walter;
The problem is that the command "liveinst" does not install to USB at the
moment
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896687
So it is now only possible to create a USB stick with the dd command:
[root@localhost RC4]# dd if=Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso of=/dev/sd(x)*
bs=2M
288+0 records in
288+0 records out
603979776 bytes (604 MB) copied, 177.758 s, 3.4 MB/s
of=/dev/sd(x)* use mount command to get device name of the mounted USB
-Note that it will have no persistence
The 4 GB .img file has persistence as it is a regular ext4 netinstall of
Sugar-desktop to USB (Thus larger in size)
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8.img 3.7G download
It would be easier to just use the above command from fedora 18 terminal
repeatedly on each new 2 GB USB using the downloaded file;
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/18/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso
-Note it only takes about 3 minutes per USB (177.758 s)
Cordially;
Tom Gilliard
satellit on #sugar
Walter;
I am uploading this livecd-iso-to-disk 2 GB .img to sunjammer as it too
complicated to make it work:
(I took most of today trying to get the commands correct)
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8_litd.img
it will be uploaded in abt 3 hrs
I will then download it and do a write to USB to confirm it works
*Write to USB
I have tested it (Boots and is persistent) on #sugar IRC-10 on 2
netbooks and 1 laptop with a 2 USB GB copy and a 4 GB USB copy using:
# dd if=Soas_8_litd.img of=/dev/sdb bs=2M
956+0 records in
956+0 records out
2004877312 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 345.459 s, 5.8 MB/s (abt 5.75
minutes)
Cordially;
Tom Gilliard
satellit on #sugar freenode IRC
This is the terminal output of the command as it writes a 2 GB USB with
persistence:
(kudos to fgross)
[root@localhost Downloads]# livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr
--overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 500 --delete-home
--unencrypted-home Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso /dev/sdb1
Verifying image...
/home/satellit/Downloads/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso:
94a4f79c75d05bb627cdfa1585de4f35
Fragment sums:
c24abf9bbe22b11386e232ce89163fa9ed834241aeb2dec29ee79f55f5f6
Fragment count: 20
Press [Esc] to abort check.
Checking: 100.0%
The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
It is OK to use this media.
WARNING: THIS WILL DESTROY ANY DATA ON /dev/sdb!!!
Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort
/dev/sdb: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (dos): 55 aa
Waiting for devices to settle...
mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
Filesystem label=LIVE
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
122400 inodes, 488704 blocks
24435 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=503316480
15 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8160 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
Copying live image to target device.
squashfs.img
540581888 100% 44.00MB/s 0:00:11 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
sent 540647953 bytes received 31 bytes 43251838.72 bytes/sec
total size is 540581888 speedup is 1.00
osmin.img
8192 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
sent 8265 bytes received 31 bytes 16592.00 bytes/sec
total size is 8192 speedup is 0.99
Updating boot config file
Initializing persistent overlay file
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.9436e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
Initializing persistent /home
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.4185e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
Formatting unencrypted /home
mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
Discarding device blocks: done
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
128016 inodes, 512000 blocks
25600 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Maximum filesystem blocks=67633152
63 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
2032 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
tune2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
Installing boot loader
/media/tgttmp.neiLPH/syslinux is device /dev/sdb1
Target device is now set up with a Live image!
[root@localhost Downloads]#
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