> I'm planning of buying one. > Is this normally plug and play, or is there something > additional required?
Should be plug and play. Note that you need BIOS support for booting from USB mass storage devices, otherwise it can't be used for installing an OS from optical media. On some systems, the USB mass storage boot support is buggy and fails to boot Solaris / OpenSolaris, e.g. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2007-January/003921.html In this case a BIOS upgrade fixed the problem: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2007-January/003926.html Another problem is that some BIOS releases apparently use slow USB 1.x transfers only during bootstrap, so that booting from a Solaris installation media needs several minutes until the big boot_archive file is loaded from the USB device. Once the kernel is started and Solaris' device drivers are used to access the CD, things work much faster. This message posted from opensolaris.org
