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 :)

Rohan

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Rohan Dhruva
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