In *theory* it can be done. Go look at the OpenSolaris Caiman package. It has a utility for that, usbgen. I've not gotten it to work, but I gave up fairly quickly as at that point I'd invested almost 3 weeks trying to find a way to clone S10 installs w/ a ZFS root.
I'm highly *not* happy, but I thought I'd lick my wounds for a while before I tried again. --- On Tue, 3/29/11, Andrew Myers <am2...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Andrew Myers <am2...@gmail.com> > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 7:22 PM > Hi, > > I have a dell latitude E6400 laptop on which unfortunately > I cannot > seem to get OI working, unless I boot it from a USB stick > (the Live CD > will not boot). I have a feeling this has something > to do with the > hard drive controller, but I am not really enough of a tech > head to > figure it out. > > So I had the idea that I could boot via the USB, and then > use a > another 64Gb stick and install OI on there. I thought > that worked, > because I ran the installer and it seemed to complete > successfully. > It rebooted from the 64G and I was able to use OI. > However after > shutting down that session, I cannot reboot again from the > 64G USB > stick. It gets to the "Splash Screen" but just > reboots shortly after. > > In theory is what I'm doing (ie. install to USB rather than > a HDD) > going to work? And if so, is there any way I can try > and debug why it > fails on subsequent reboots? > > Regards, > Andrew. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
