[OpenIndiana-New-developers] Regarding oi installation using bootable usb

[Alex Lam S.L.]

Yeah - I've got burnt by that too.

There is actually a simpler (2-step?) process to do this:

sudo pkg install distribution-constructor
sudo usbcopy oi-dev-151a3-live-x86.usb

Attached example output below.


HTH,
Alex.

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admin at nbl:~$ sudo pkg install distribution-constructor
Password:
           Packages to install:  1
       Create boot environment: No
Create backup boot environment: No

DOWNLOAD                                  PKGS       FILES    XFER (MB)
Completed                                  1/1       66/66      0.2/0.2

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Install Phase                                105/105

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Package State Update Phase                       1/1
Image State Update Phase                         2/2
admin at nbl:~$ cd Downloads/
admin at nbl:~/Downloads$ sudo usbcopy oi-dev-151a3-live-x86.usb
Found the following USB devices:
0:      /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0      3.8 GB  Removable Disk   PMAP
1:      /dev/rdsk/c4t0d1p0      4.0 MB  Removable Disk   PMAP
Enter the number of your choice: 0

WARNING: All data on your USB storage will be lost.
Are you sure you want to install to
Removable Disk PMAP, 3800 MB at /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 ?  (y/n) y
Copying and verifying image to USB device
Finished 973 MB in 215 seconds (4.5MB/s)
0 block(s) re-written due to verification failure
Installing grub to USB device /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s0
Completed copy to USB
admin at nbl:~/Downloads$



On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Tushar Mehta <mehtatus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was following wiki
> note(http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Installing+OpenIndiana) to install
> illumos
> on my system as I want to install illumos. I am trying to make bootable usb
> but it showing me
> some text and grub> prompt. I am not getting why this is happening.
>
> I am running following command to make bootable usb in my Linux machine:
>
>>cat 1G.header <USB image file> | dd bs=1024k of=<path to raw USB storage
>> device>
>
> I tried with both usb file i.e. 151a and 151a3.
>
> USB device I am specifying as /dev/sdb.
>
> I have install oi in vbox but it is very slow.
>
> Please let me know if any other information is needed.
>
> Thank you,
> Tushar
> IRC nick name: tushar_mehta
>
>
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