Getting it

Installation procedure

The USB image can be downloaded from the SourceForge project. After download, uncompress it, and then you simply have to copy it on the key.

Under windows you can use the Open Source Win32-image-writer tool. In this case, select the disk image and your USB key drive letter, and “write” to perform the image copy. Warning: the process will wipe your key! So, check before writing the image for any file in the USB key that need backup.

Screenshot Win32 Disk Imager Getting it

Under linux, it is possible to copy the image using the “dd” command, or through a graphical tool. Under Ubuntu, you can use the Ubuntu USB imagewriter (the package name is “usb-imagewriter”) that works like the W32 image writer in the Windows case.
If you prefer a command line approach:
Linux: insert your key in one of your computer’s USB port, open a terminal window, type the following command

dmesg

and press the Enter key from your keyboard. This way the system helps you to identify the device name of the USB key. Check the last lines from the command’s output and you’ll probably get a result similar to the following one:

[ 7532.975104] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 7532.977915] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 15568896 512-byte logical blocks

The “sdb” is the name of the disk in your system. Change directory to the place where you downloaded the image, type the following command

sudo dd if=<name of uncompressed image file> of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

press Enter and don’t remove your key until the copy is done. Be careful to use the EXACT name found in dmesg!

The image can also be run unmodified under QEMU, for example to test or modify its configuration before installing the image on the USB key. For large scale adaptiations, we suggest to perform the initial modifications through QEMU on the “master” image, and then deploy this modified image to all your PCs. This way, configurations like default servers, specific applications of interest and more will get replicated to all your users in a single step.

Default login/password

The default login is “conecta“, with password “conecta” (without the quotes). The password is the same for all administrative requests as well.