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

[Tushar Mehta]

Problem is currently I have Ubuntu installed and I am trying to make live
usb from it. So the steps you suggested
are for Solaris based OS right?

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Alex Lam S.L. <alexlamsl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -------------------
>
>
> 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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