On 02/25/11 01:53 AM, Terry Schima wrote:
I read in the system requirements that 2010.11 needed absolute minimum of 3GB, but preferrably 7GB to install. I have tried to install it on an 8 GB USB stick which registeres 7.49 GB formatted as fat32. Do I need some other swap space somewhere else to get it to install? Am I going to have to have OpenSolaris installed on a machine in order to make the USB stick?
The installer tries to ensure that there is space for a full second copy of the system (since upgrades are to a ZFS clone) and also needs space for swap and dump devices. You might have better luck with the text installer image, then adding the desktop packages after installation.
Yes, at present the supported tools for copying the USB images that we distribute only run on Solaris. You reference Hiroshi's tool below, and that is another option, though one that we don't officially support.
I used the OpenSolaris Live USB creator to create a 4 GB bootable live USB (by Hiroshi Chonan), and that worked fine, but it doesn't save any of my settings. And that's not what I want anyway, I could use that for maintenance, but I want to run osol on a USB stick and be able to save data settings, etc. I don't have any extra space on my HDD to install it, so I would just like to run it from a USB. I've googled "install opensolaris on usb", but what comes up is "install...from USB", or Hiroshi's software. Any research ideas? Thanks.
Installing to USB sticks is possible, but you generally have to be sure to plug the stick into the same port on the same system every time otherwise there can be device enumeration differences that render the stick unbootable.
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