I've been working on creating a liveUSB for a few weeks and now have a script ready :)
This makes it really easy to get a bootable USB with OpenSolaris on it by installing Belenix 0.5.0 on a USB pen drive. Belenix is now the first OpenSolaris distribution able to run off a USB drive, and one of the few *nix distributions that boot and run off a thumb drive.
Steps:
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1.Download the file http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/binfiles/usbdump1.0.tar.gz
2.Extract the contents to a temporary directory and cd into it.
3.Run the script as : ./usbdump <path to belenix 0.5.0 iso>
ex: ./usbdump /home/belenix-0.5.0.iso
4.Now follow the instructions on the screen.
Note:
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* currently you need a minimum 1 gb Thumb drive (as the script basically dumps the entire live CD contents onto the usb).
* A smaller iso is being worked on, one that will fit onto a 512 mb pen drive.
* Version 0.5.1 onwards the script will be incorporated into the LiveCD
* I'd also get these changes into the OpenSolaris LiveMedia project so a USB bootable Solaris express is possible. This would require stripping down the default install, to enable the OS to fit into a 1 gb drive.
A whole bunch of new possibilities open up with a LiveUSB, which is the stuff of future work.
Regards,
Anil
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