The smartos USB stick image is FAT formated. It doesn’t matter much which FS you want to use but you would have to create your own key - it’s only used for reading the platform image into memory so just don’t care and ignore it…
— Daniel > On 7 Feb 2015, at 19:35, [email protected] wrote: > > Many many thanks, Daniel, > > That helped. I updated bzip2 and uzipped one file. I'm installing it now on a > USB thumb drive following instructions on: > > https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Creating+a+SmartOS+Bootable+USB+Key > <https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Creating+a+SmartOS+Bootable+USB+Key> > > It seems to saving properly, but I'm wondering... > > The drive is formatted with FAT. > > - Should I have reformatted it with something like ext3? > - Does it matter if the drive has other files? > > Apologize for the Mickey the Dunce questions, but that's where I'm coming > from. > > All the best, > > Lloyd > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Daniel Malon via smartos-discuss" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 1:55pm > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Questions about SmartOS download > > Hi, > It should be only one file. Depending on the download manager or browser you > use it might create the .part file during download. > curl -kLo smartos-latest-USB.img.bz2 > https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.bz2 > > <https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.bz2> > Should pull down the file and you should be able to decompress and write it > to your USB stick. > — > Daniel > > On 7 Feb 2015, at 18:50, [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Brand new to SmartOS, but eager to learn. > > I'm trying to download the USB version of SmartOS based on instructions here: > > http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Download+SmartOS > <http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Download+SmartOS> > > This seems to download two images: > > - smartos-latest-USB.img.bz2 > - smartos-latest-USB.img.bz2.part > > When I bunzip2 smartos-latest-USB.img.bz2 I get the following error: > > bunzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly; perhaps it is corrupted? Possible > reason follows. bunzip2: > > No such file or directory Input file = smartos-latest-USB.img.bz2, output > file = smartos-latest-USB.img > > It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted. > > > I've retried the download several times with the same error. > > So, questions: > Why two files? > How can I get SmartOS on my USB stick? > Many thanks, > > LRP > > > smartos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/21955186-c7d24c67> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/> > smartos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/26933131-e9e02ff5> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/> > smartos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/21955186-c7d24c67> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/> ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
