Sugar on a Stick - Sugar Labs

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 11:12:07 MST 2009


For the record

https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

seems to not care what iso is used... I just made a thumbrive a
Clonezilla boot usb

It also left the virtualbox and other files on the USB in place.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Eric Shubert<ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> I stumbled across this just now:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
> "The Sugar on a Stick project gives children access to /their/ Sugar on
> any computer in their environment with just a USB memory stick. Taking
> advantage of the Fedora LiveUSB, it's possible to store everything you
> need to run Sugar on a single USB memory stick (minimum size 1GB)."
> I must have missed/ignored this being mentioned here before.
>
> This could be big. Kids no longer need their own computer. They can use
> their parent's computer without trashing it. Plus the student's
> computing environment is the same no matter which computer they're
> using. Heck, I might do this myself!
>
> I wonder if we might find some sponsor who would buy a bunch of 1G thumb
> drives (with their name/logo on them of course)? RedSeven comes to mind,
> but I'd like to find a less geeky sponsor. We could load them up with
> Sugar and distribute them to our local schools or other groups, along
> with a simple pamphlet explaining what to do with it.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
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Stephen


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