[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick

[Andrew Myers]

Hi Reg,

Actually this is what I'd done initially, and the problem was that it
appeared to work but then wouldn't boot on subsequent attempts.

However what I'd done was booted from the live USB image (because of
the SATA issue discussed elsewhere, I couldn't even get the live cd to
boot).  So I had 2 USB sticks inserted at once, which is possibly the
problem since it appears the having it in the same port each time is
important.

So I'll try again, but this time will change the SATA setting in my
BIOS (which when I checked yesterday does indeed let me boot from the
live CD).  Fingers crossed!

Andrew.

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Reginald Beardsley pulaskite at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 3 15:20:41 UTC 2011

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1) Boot the Live Image

2) Identify the internal disk so you don't stomp on it

3) Plug the USB disk into a convenient port

You will ALWAYS need to plug into the same port to boot the disk.

NB There are several removable volume managers which will try to mount
the disk.  That can make things a bit messy.  Post if you run into
trouble.

3) Install OI and select the USB disk as the target

NB If you set the boot priority to CD-USB-HD it will boot OI anytime
it sees the disk at boot time.  If the disk is not plugged in it's a
perfectly normal Windows machine.  Very helpful if it's a company
laptop as there's nothing for IT to get upset about.

Have Fun!
Reg