On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 1:13:56 PM UTC+8, David Roe wrote: > > > > As for equipment, there's been talk recently about a bootable USB thumb > drive with Sage on it. Having various ways to hand out Sage to people who > bring their laptops by would be great. > > The possibility to create working bootable USB sticks from the Sage Live CD is there at least since 3 years. If you have a computer running sage live CD on it then you can install it to the peoples sticks (GUI interface) - would also be possible directly at the exhibition. In most cases people can keep there data on the stick, because the distro just needs 600 MB free in its own folder (not a dedicated partition). see here<http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/emil/doc/html/en/HOWTO-FirstSteps.htm>about USB installs using the universal installer utility. In older versions this GUI- tool can be started from the System Menu of the Live CD. In the last version I hid lots of system tools, so you need to run "puppyinstaller" from the commandline.
Other possibilities: Use Unetbootin or a similar tool to install the iso on a stick (I remember that it wipes other data, but that might have changed) I have also tested a manual method<http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/emil/doc/html/en/HOWTO-Advanced_Setup.html#manual_frugal_USB> ps: the last iso of the sage live CD is here<http://sagemath.org/download-livecd.html> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
