How To Write file: SDsugar4CGB.tar.gz to a USB Stick Preparation of target device: Caution if you purchase Sandisk cruzer micro 4 GB USB you have to use Windows machine to to start the U3 program and delete the hidden U3 directory This will make the USB a full 4GB otherwise it will be too small to use dd to copy .img file (U3 partition will not be removed by formating with Partition Manager) USB does not need to be formatted first: SDsugar4CGB.tar.gz 1.)Decompress downloaded file SDsugar4CGB.tar.gz(1.1GB) to SDsugar4CGB.img(3.7GB) 2.)Write to USB or SD CAUTION VERY DANGEROUS IF NOT ENTERED CORRECTLY: be certain of the device identifier, /dev/sd(x), for your USB Stick. (I use the partition editor in Ubuntu 9.04 to identify the USB device.) ==================================== * Enter Terminal su - command: dd if=SDsugar4CGB.img of=/dev/sdb bs=4k (Note be sure device identifier is /dev/sdb, see above) (Need to be ROOT or get permission denied) Example of sucessful session: ======SDsugar4CGB.img to 4GB Stick =====09/21/2009======= root@xxxx:/home/(user)/Desktop# dd if=SDsugar4CGB.img of=/dev/sdg bs=4k 968064+0 records in 968064+0 records out 3965190144 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 579.574 s, 6.8 MB/s ====================================================== NOTES: 3.)How to make multiple copies of USB: remove USB and replace with another USB hit up arrow on cursor pad to repeat command hit return GREAT DUPLICATOR 4.)How to make a .img file of working Customized USB dd if=/dev/sdb of=SDsugar4CGB.img (Note be sure device identifier is /dev/sdb, see above) 5.)you may want to clear the /.sugar entity if using multiple copies on the same network or you will get collisions: (in sugar terminal) rm -rf ~/.sugar su - shutdown -h now