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

[Alex Lam S.L.]

Ah yes, sorry - I just boot into the Live DVD iso to make the Live USB.

I have not tried making it with another OS yet.


Alex.



On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Tushar Mehta <mehtatus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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