Hi, this week I had time to install OpenSolaris in a virtual box on a W* host. That went quite well with a disk image. Yesterday I installed wanted to install OpenSolaris for real on my external USB disk. But I didn't have any CDs/DVDs left for burning the image.
So I thought, let's try an experiment. I performed the installation with the installation CD image on the external disk within a virtual box. That went quite well. After this, I wanted to boot the external disk for real, but that paniced because the installation couldn't import the root pool. Quite obvious issue. As a workaround I booted the machine from network with an NV99 install server. I dropped down to single user shell, and was at once prompted if I want to import the attached pool. What a nice surprice. Even better, the install-server image asked me if I wanted to perform an update of the root image. So I only pressed 'y' twice, rebooted, and my laptop was running on the OpenSolaris installation that I earlier performed on the external USB disk. Perfect - no burning of the installation image was necessary. Afterwards, I thought, wouldn't it be a nice feature to have an option to additionally install such a rescue image on a regular installation, so that one can easily move an installation to another host. For me this would be extremely good, because then I could run the same installation natively on the laptop and within a virtual box. I guess adding the install-image as another option to the grub menu wouldn't be a hell lot of work, would it? Any thoughts or comments? - Thomas _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
