Sugar on a Stick - Sugar Labs

[Eric Shubert]

liveusb-create will put any OS that has a Live iso on a USB stick. I 
just did CentOS5.3, with persistence. Works like a charm.

I have a HP SFF computer I've been trying to get to boot Knoppix from a 
thumb drive. Tried 5.1.1 first, then 6.0 using Adriane. The 6.0 stick 
boots on my laptop fine, but not on the HP SFF. With 5.1.1 and 6.0, 
knoppix hangs at "Searching for Knoppix 6 in: /dev/sda". Drove me nuts 
yesterday.

The COS5.3 stick I just made boots fine on the HP SFF, but I do get 
these messages:

Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) not within permissible range
Hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 7

I wonder if that's what's causing the problem with knoppix.

I'm happy with COS5 on a stick though. That's more what I was looking 
for anywise, because I want to use it in place of a recovery disk for 
COS5 servers. It appears to do well for that, with persistence to boot 
(so to speak). ;)

Stephen wrote:
> heck forget sugar install fed 11 on them...
> 
> there are many time that a usb bootable OS would have saved me a large
> amount of greif... maybe get something like knoppix and see if you can
> set that up on the USB stick?
> 
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Michael Butash<michael at butash.net> wrote:
>> I dunno about any of you, but I know of no schools using sugar, let
>> alone linux here locally.  I've worked with a few school districts
>> around town for infrastructure, and they're all very linux-ama-whuzzit?
>> As far as I can tell they have issues grasping/maintaining networked
>> windoze environments, and I can't imagine them wanting to now inject a
>> whole new os even they themselves haven't a clue how to maintain.
>> Combine this with being already overworked and underpaid, it'll die on
>> the butchering floor for anyone to support it within the organization.
>>
>> Now look at this from a kids perspective, if they can't run games or
>> even apps they're *familiar* with, I think most would immediately
>> dismiss it.  Combine this with probably scaring the hell out of their
>> windoze-loving parents booting their system even temporarily into linux,
>> they'd ban such a thing thinking it's a virus or something equally
>> asinine.  I think only the most geek-inclined would bother, others would
>> just format it to hide their pr0n on.  Microsoft and scammers (one and
>> same?) have done a good job of getting people to think that nothing good
>> can possibly be free...
>>
>> As good as the intentions, without some serious persistence and
>> education, it'd be moot to bother with IMHO.  Cisco has done a good job
>> of trying to push themselves into high school education curriculum, as
>> has Microsoft, but I don't see the same happening with any linux.  There
>> is no singular beast of a self-serving company producing and
>> incentivizing it with the same capacity for pulling money off trees for
>> pet projects as they do.  Well, at least until google steps forward with
>> ChromeOS perhaps...
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:51 -0700, Stephen wrote:
>>> even further out on a limb maybe contact any of the big companies
>>> wanting to tout their opensource support? dell hp ibm ect...
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Stephen<cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> And honestly they are one of the most persistant companies supporting
>>>> opensource locally. kinda of a fit..
>>>>
>>>> maybe contact system76?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:12 AM, wayne<waydavis at cox.net> wrote:
>>>>> Eric Shubert 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.
>>>
>>>


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-Eric 'shubes'