> Do you have a URL or something for where I can find > the tutorial for installing 2008.05 on a USB stick? > This is something I've been wanting to try but > haven't done yet. I know in Milax there's a script > that you run to do it.
You don't need to do anything. Basically, after you boot from the 0805 LiveCD, insert a USB stick, then click on the "installa" icon. You then will be presented with two choices: installing into the built-in HD or the external USB HD. Just click on the latter, and you should be able to install os0805 into and boot from it. (I say "should", because I have only tested on three notebooks, all have core-2-duo and all are based on the Intel Centrino chipset.) You can also install os0805 into a compressed zpool. First you create a simple script, say set_options.sh containing the following statements: ******* #!/bin/sh until [ "`zpool list rpool`" ]; do . . done pfexec zfs set compression=on rpool pfexec zfs set compression=on rpool/ROOT ******** Then run this script before you click on the install icon, you should have a nicely compressed os0805 installed on your USB stick. (The above script was taken from my notes which I copied from one of Sun's bloggers. I couldn't find where it came from, but want to make sure that it was not my script and I did not intend to steal it.) I really wish some of our zfs experts will figure out why I can's boot os0811 from a USB stick. One of the best demos you can do which will impress the heck out of everyone is to install os0805 with RAID-Z on your notebook with two USB sticks. OpenSolaris has its share of pros and cons, and at the present time, there are probably more cons than pros. But this is the ONE trick that will silence any critic. This is the CHOSEN one, man, and we are so proud to be its messengers. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
