Willie Walker wrote: > Hi All: > > What I think is really cool here is that we are seeing a new class of > users being empowered by OpenSolaris. These users are able to download > and install OpenSolaris independently, without sighted assistance. It's > way cool, and I want to see us get even better for 2009.04. > >> Getting OpenSolaris on a usb stick should be relatively easy. >> Here's the latest image: >> http://www.genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-0811.usb >> The size of the image is 825M. >> And here's a guide to use it: >> http://blogs.sun.com/rv/entry/getting_opensolaris_into_an_usb > > Right now, it looks like it's a Catch-22 in that you need to have > installed OpenSolaris before you can make a USB stick to boot the live > image. >
Or at least a recent version of Solaris, but yes, that's correct. > Is there a way for people coming from Linux or Windows to create a USB > stick? Not right now. > I've not tried it, but maybe it's possible to boot from the Live > CD, download the appropriate files/images and then create a USB stick > without needing to install OpenSolaris? > Yes, that would work, assuming you have some storage you can access from the CD to store the image (or you need to have a large amount of memory to that dropping it into /tmp could work). You'd need to download both the image and the usbcopy utility, which isn't present on the CD. Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
