• Installing Sugar (Soas) onto Windows Virtual PC 2007

    Date: 2009.10.18 | Category: microsoft, pc, sugar, virtual

    Sugar won’t install by default. I have tried hitting tab and adding noreplace-paravirt to no avail :(


    This is a screen dump of what I have..


    Adding add vga=0x32D will boot me into the GUI but I have no mouse!

    Adding i8042.noloop gives me a mouse!

    How to do it:

    1. Create a Virtual PC
    2. Set RAM to 256MB
    3. Mount Sugar ISO image
    4. Start up your Virtual PC
    5. A message will pop up saying “Automatic boot up in 1 second” – Hit TAB!
    6. You will see a line saying “vmlinuz0 initrd=initrd0.img root=CDLABEL=Soas2-200906221314 rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhbg”. Remove the last 2 words (quiet and rhbg)
    7. Add “vga=0x32D i8042.noloop” to the end of the line
    The line should read…

    vmlinuz0 initrd=initrd0.img root=CDLABEL=Soas2-200906221314 rootfstype=auto ro liveimg vga=0x32D i8042.noloop

    *Note the CDLABEL value may change dependant on the release you use!

    **Note Files will not be saved in this version, there will be no persistence so updates will not be saved either. This is not the case if you boot from a USB Key

    Congrats – Working Sugar on a virtual PC :)

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