Ubuntu Sugar tester... Easy Live USB with persistence of ubuntu-sugar-remix for testing

Thomas C Gilliard satellit at bendbroadband.com
Tue Jan 5 02:31:37 GMT 2010


Re: Ubuntu Testing Platforms

1-)with ppa sugar installed:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Using_sugar_PPAs

I just did this on a 120GB USB external HD with a fresh install of 
Karmic. (I had to edit the wiki instructions first, (sugar-platform did 
not exist but sugar did))
**These instructions DID NOT WORK for me,**
Sugar-emulator in gnome ended up as a black screen and the gdm selection 
of sugar causd a crash back to gdm login.
these instructions worked about 2 months ago. Something has changed...:  /

2-) I then installed gparted and formated a 4 GB USB for fat16. Then I 
downloaded the latest ubuntu-sugar-remix-0103.iso and started 
usbstartup-disk creator on the 120B usb external disk. I made a startup 
USB using the remix .iso and set the persistence file to 1GB. It works 
fine and remembers my settings. ("Add user:the user ubuntu already 
exists") Great way to test your latest versions on a live USB......
 NOTE: Use "Try Ubuntu Sugar Remix without any change to your computer" 
on boot-up for this to work.
 NOTE2: Persistence writing on shutdown takes a long time do not remove 
the usb until it stops flashing (1-2 min)

3-) To shutdown I enter "sudo shutdown -h now" in terminal. On restart 
of the usb the command exists in up cursor arrow of terminal and gives a 
nice way to shut down
DO NOT TRY LOGOUT OR SHUTDOWN from drop-down boxes as it freezes 
terminal and will probably cause a corrupted USB. Once the command is 
entered there is no graceful way to stop the USB and save your settings.

4-) Browse still does not start, so I could not load other applications 
to test.



Tom Gilliard
satellit

David Farning wrote:
> CCed ubuntu-sugarteam and satellit
>
> Paul,
>
> I have CCed satellit, the Sugar Labs VM expert.  Hopefully, he has
> some ideas about how to make this easy to test in your lab.
>
> david
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:20 AM,  <flint at flint.com> wrote:
>   
>> Dear David and Jeff,
>>
>> We may want a repository of Virtual Disk Images (VDIs) at some convenient
>> place where there is lots of storage and bandwidth.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, David Farning wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:38:24 -0600
>>> From: David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
>>> To: Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net>
>>> Cc: flint at flint.com, Henry Grover <henrywgrover at gmail.com>,
>>>    Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>,
>>>    Kevin Cole <kjcole at dc.sugarlabs.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Sugar tester...
>>>
>>> If possible, running directly from the image through vBox would best for
>>> now.
>>>
>>> I have contacted the Ubuntu back ports team about back porting the
>>> current sugar-0.88 Lucid packages to Karmic.  But, it is not likely to
>>> happen within the next two months
>>>
>>> david
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> It could be indeed, Mr. Flint.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:05 PM,  <flint at flint.com> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Dear Jeff,
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>>>
>>>>> Could this be why the software gods gave us VirtuaBox...
>>>>>
>>>>> With respect and...
>>>>>
>>>>> Kindest Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Jeff Elkner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 13:52:08 -0500
>>>>>> From: Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net>
>>>>>> To: David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
>>>>>> Cc: Henry Grover <henrywgrover at gmail.com>,
>>>>>>    Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>,
>>>>>>    Kevin Cole <kjcole at dc.sugarlabs.org>, Paul Flint <flint at flint.com>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Sugar tester...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would be a big help to us if the packages would also run on karmic,
>>>>>> since most of our "Sugar testers" are working on things like
>>>>>> documentation for TurtleArt and such, and need to run Sugar on our
>>>>>> regular lab machines.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> jeff
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:22 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Let me introduce you to Henry Grover, student and aspiring system
>>>>>>>> administrator.  I've tasked Henry with working on our top project
>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>> year: Sugar.  Specifically, he will be able to test things like your
>>>>>>>> new Lucid Sugar builds.  We will want both the SoaS version and the
>>>>>>>> Sugar as a desktop option on a regular system version.
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> Hey Henry,
>>>>>>> Nice to meet you.  System administration is a fascinating field.  One
>>>>>>> of the most important skills for sysadmins is the ability to diagnose
>>>>>>> and fix problems.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The existing Ubuntu sugar packages were so broken that no one could
>>>>>>> agree on how to fix them:(  So, I have thrown them out and started
>>>>>>> fresh.  We have fresh packages for Ubuntu 10.4 autosynced from Debain
>>>>>>> unstable rolled up into a neat little bundle called Ubuntu Sugar
>>>>>>> Remix.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For the next four months I expect that we will have our hands full
>>>>>>> with 3 specific tasks:
>>>>>>> 1 - Testing and reporting bugs.
>>>>>>> 2 - Triaging bugs.
>>>>>>> 3 - Fixing bugs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any help you can give in any of these three areas is greatly
>>>>>>> appreciated.  My goal is to do a test release of Sugar 0.87 on Ubuntu
>>>>>>> 10.04 every week so that we generate some momentum while providing
>>>>>>> valuable feedback for upstream developers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> david
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> I'll be talking to Henry about this tomorrow, and hopefully he will
>>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>>> able to dive right in with it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> jeff elkner
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>> Kindest Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul Flint
>>>>> (802) 479-2360
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>> Kindest Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Flint
>> (802) 479-2360
>>
>>
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>> 05641
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