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

[Aleksey Lim]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:31:37PM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
> 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,**

https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam/+archive/0.86 repo looks empty
I guess the major plan for ubuntu team is using debian's sugar

> 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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> >>>>>
> >>>>> Paul Flint
> >>>>> Barre Open Systems Institute
> >>>>> 17 Averill Street
> >>>>> Barre, VT
> >>>>> 05641
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.bosivt.org
> >>>>> http://www.flint.com/home
> >>>>> skype: flintinfotech
> >>>>> Work: (202) 537-0480
> >>>>>
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> >>>>>           
> >> Kindest Regards,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Paul Flint
> >> (802) 479-2360
> >>
> >>
> >> /************************************
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> >> please send an acknowledgment in response to this note.
> >>
> >> Paul Flint
> >> Barre Open Systems Institute
> >> 17 Averill Street
> >> Barre, VT
> >> 05641
> >>
> >> http://www.bosivt.org
> >> http://www.flint.com/home
> >> skype: flintinfotech
> >> Work: (202) 537-0480
> >>
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-- 
Aleksey