Rohan Dhruva wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Rohan B. Dhruva wrote: >>> Is there any way to boot using a usb drive? Writing to CDs is notoriously >>> unreliable, and I have no "clean" CD-RW anyway. I definitely want to test >>> this release, as the previous release used to lock up at boot due to ACPI >>> issues. >> We haven't been distributing USB images, since it requires Solaris Express >> or OpenSolaris to put them on the drive. I suppose we can start placing >> them on the torrent as well, if people would find it useful. >> >> Dave >> > > OK, I suppose they will be more useful only after we can make usb > sticks from other OSs. > > How about this scenario though - I use the USB image to boot up > OpenSolaris, and make a real physical USB stick using that? Is it > viable? I am going through all this just to avoid scratched CDs -> > failed installs -> grief :) >
The USB image as built is not bootable, the transfer process to the stick makes it bootable. That depends on OpenSolaris-specific stuff right now, hence the requirement. Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
