On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Murphy Scott wrote: > OmniOS is an opensolaris successor that runs as a live DVD. I do > know that it is active, they had a booth at the conference I was > attending last week. > > http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/WikiStart > > Oracle was there as well and Oracle Solaris 11 is still available if you want > to go that route. > > Scott
i'm looking for something that boots and runs directly off a USB drive, and i'm confused by something i'm reading here: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Installing+OpenIndiana when i read that something is a "live USB" image, i normally assume that i simply "dd" that to a USB stick, and i can boot from that. but notice the instructions on that page: 1. Download both the standard live USB file and the 1G.header file. ... 4. Run the following command (as root or with appropriate privileges): cat 1G.header <live USB image file> | dd bs=1024k of=<path to raw USB storage device> i'm confused ... how is something a "live USB image file" if you need to prepend a 1G "header file" when copying it to a USB drive? that just seems ... weird. i'll give OmniOS a try, thanks. rday _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
