Thank you, Daniel, I'm looking forward to exploring SmartOS and, from there, ZFS and on to Project FiFo and/or Joyent's sdc. All the best, Lloyd -----Original Message----- From: "Daniel Malon" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 2:42pm To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Questions about SmartOS download
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] ]( mailto:[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] ]( mailto:[email protected] )>Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 1:55pmTo: [ [email protected] ]( mailto:[email protected] ), [ [email protected] ]( mailto:[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
