On 03/29/11 08:43 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
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.
usbgen is used to generate the USB stick images from ISO's, which
doesn't seem to be the question here.
In general, installing to USB drives will work. However, booting from
USB drives will usually require that they be inserted into the same USB
slot every time. It's unclear whether that was the case here.
Dave
--- 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.
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