Trying out Sugar on a Stick – you know – for the kids
I saw this a little while ago and it looks like a great way for the kids to have a computer of their own. Yesterday we stopped in at the office and while we were there I grabbed the old laptop I had bought a while ago with them in mind. It’s a compaq presario running win 95 and doesn’t even boot right actually but the body is really sturdy so for $20 I thought it was the perfect kids first real laptop.
So today they both took a nap – in fact they’re right over there on the couch – and while they’re snoozing I thought I’d give this a shot. I went to the soas homepage ( http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick ) and followed the instructions there and am just waiting while the live usb creator does it’s thing ( https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ ). That live usb creator looks like a great little thing by the way. can make your usb stick a live bootable linux os. I’m trying it on our 2GB usb stick from the office. if it works I guess I’ll have to get another one for work.
Ok great – looks like it’s complete – i’ll post later with an update!
UPDATE
Ok it’s a compaq presario 1694 and it’s running win 98 but it looks like it is booting up into windows after all! it’s not recognizing the usb drive though 
– looks like it wants a driver. need to add the usb to the boot options…
UPDATE 2
Things have stalled out mostly becuase the dang laptop is so old. it won’t run the stick because it wants drivers – win98 didn’t automatically handle drivers like things do now remember . there’s no ethernet jack – only a phone jack – so it’s proving difficult to get online and transfer files to it. Tried running a live ubuntu cd and that didn’t work – i think because it only has 64MB of RAM and the ubuntu live cd needs more than that. I mean this thing is so old it has a floppy disk drive in it. Not giving up though – i’m still hoping to get some newer version of linux installed on it to handle the usb drivers and then i should be in business. more to come!
Also, after digging into it more I think that the memory requirements for running
