Dotsch/UX is installable on a USB stick. Minimum USB Stick size 1 GB, recommended 2 GB.
 
The installation requires about 570 MB (i386) and 640 MB (x64) for the OS Image, a second image on the USB stick (about 200.500 MB) for OS changes and a separate image (recommended 500 to 1 GB) for the BOINC installation.
The size of the BOINC image depends strongly on the BOINC projects you would crunch !
 
If you would be prompted for a password for the User „boinc“, this would results from the usage of the sudo tool, which requires the user password for authentication to issue commands as root. The password for the User boinc is boinc. Please change the boinc user password after the installation is finished.
 
The USB Stick installation
 
• Burn the downloaded .iso image to a CD and boot your computer from this CD.
 
• After the OS has loaded and the desktop is available, connect your USB Stick to the computer, a icon for the USB
  stick would appear on the Desktop.
 
• Start the USB Stick installation by click on the „Create a USB Startup disk (step 1)“ icon on Applications Menu
  under „Dotsch/UX USB Tools“
 
 
 
• The installer dialogue would start and show a source (/cdrom) and a destination (/dev/sda1) for the USB stick.
 
   Now you have got to choose a size for the reserved extra space on the USB stick. This size would be used for
   changes in the OS. The BOINC client would be installed on a separate image on the USB stick.
   The reserved space depends what you want additional install on the USB stick OS. About 200..500 MB would be
   OK, but depends  also on  the size of the USB stick you are using. The rest of the free space would be used for
   the BOINC home directory image.
 
 
 
The initial installation requires about 5 Minutes...  
 
 
 
• After the installation, reboot the system, remove the CD from the drive and set the USB stick as bootable device
  in the BIOS and boot from the USB stick.    
 
• Now, the USB stick must be customised for BOINC. Please start the BOINC USB installer by  selecting
  Applications / Dotsch/UX USB Tools / Install Dotsch/UX on the USB Stick (2. Step) from, the applications menu
  
 
 
• A terminal window open, which customise the USB stick installation...
   The BOINC Image creation could ran for several minutes. But, it depends on the size of your USB stick...
 
 
 
 
• If you would like to configure the network configuration manually, please answer yes to the configure network
  question.
   Since Dotsch /UX 1.1 a text based configuration tool for the network configuration available.
 
 
 
 
   For Dotsch/UX 1.0 a graphical interface (nm-connection-editor) would open. For more informations about this
   Ubuntu tool, have a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager0.7
  
 
 
• If everything completed successfully, reboot the system again, for the last boot, from the USB stick.
   Your USB Stick Dotsch/UX system is now setup, and ready to use. After the reboot the system will start the
   BOINC client automatically with enabled GUI RPC mechanics, with the default password ‚boinc“  to connect
   remotely to the system via a other BOINC manager.
 
• For the BOINC configuration process and attachment to your favourite science projects, have a look at 2.4 (
  BOINC configuration)
 
 
 
2.1 USB stick installation