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Running gOS 3 Beta from USB stick
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
The San Francisco-based company announced the details of gOS 3 Gadgets, the newest version of its Linux operating system for consumers, this month. The main feature of gOS 3 Gadgets is its ability to instantly launch Google Gadgets for Linux on start-up, allowing users access to more than 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets applications.
The new
distribution gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based onUbuntu 8.04.1 and is able to interact with Google Documents, Calendar
and Mail. The newest release of WINE 1.0 is included to now support thousands
of Windows software. The new operation system will also be loaded withLightweight X Desktop Environment (LXDE) and
other Google software for Linux to improve the user experience.
This
workshop describes how to installand run
the new software from an USB stick.
Step
1: Running the Live CD and getting Internet connection
To install
gOS 3 Beta on your USB stick you need to download the iso image from here and
to burn it to a CD-ROM using your favourite tool.
After that,
allow your computer to start from your CD device and perform the necessarysteps to change your network settings. (see
pictures below). You will need an Internet connection to download additional
software and configuration files.
Step 2:
Preparing the USB stick
As
mentioned above, we need to download additional files. Make sure to have your
Internet connection running. Open a new console and use the following commands
to download syslinux and mtools:
sudo su
apt-get
update
apt get
install syslinux mtools
Connect
your USB stick to the computer now. The most important part is to figure out
the device name of your USB stick. Please use the following command to do so:
fdisk –l
We are
using /dev/sdb in our example and will later create two partitions /dev/sdb1
and /dev/sdb2. You should use you device name accordingly.
Delete
existing partitions (if necessary) and follow the steps below:
fdisk /dev/sdb, p, d
continue
like this:
n, p, 1, <ENTER>, +750M, <ENTER>,
a, 1, t, b,
n, p, 2 <ENTER>, <ENTER>,w.
In some
cases the USB stick is already mounted. So unmount it with the following
command:
umount
/dev/sdb1
It is now
time to format the partitions. Please use the commands below:
mkfs.vfat
–F 16 –n gOS /dev/sdb1
mkfs.ext2
–b 4096 –L gOS–rw /dev/sdb2
Disconnect
the USB stick from your computer and connect it again. The device is now ready
to install the operating system.Create
a new directory on the stick and mount the partition like this:
mkdir /media/gOS
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/gOS
The
following command will install the boot loader
syslinux
–sf /dev/sdb1
Step 3:
Copying the necessary files from CD-ROM to the USB stick
It is time
to copy all necessary data from the CD ROM to the USB stick using the following
commands:
Finally
download the configuration file from pendrivelinux.com like this:
cd /media/gOS
wget pendrivelinux.com/downloads/gOS/syslinux.cfg
Reboot your
computer and change the BIOS settingsto allow to boot from your USB device. Configurelanguages and network again and your are
able to use your Google Documents, Calendar and Mail.
