[note: reply list trimmed to just livemedia-discuss] Anil verve wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been working on creating a liveUSB for a few weeks and now have a > script ready :) > > This makes it really easy to get a bootable USB with OpenSolaris on it > by installing Belenix 0.5.0 on a USB pen drive. Belenix is now the first > OpenSolaris distribution able to run off a USB drive, and one of the few > *nix distributions that boot and run off a thumb drive. >
This turned out to be quite useful to me last week. We were having a "science fair" set of demos of ongoing Solaris work for the Solaris OS Ambassadors on Thursday, and as I was getting the demo of our Caiman mockup on top of the live DVD set up on Wednesday night, it turned out my Ferrari 3400's DVD drive's eject mechanism had locked itself in the "eject" position, so I couldn't get the live DVD (or any other DVD) inserted. After several attempts to get it functioning, I thought, well, maybe I can get Anil's scripts to work for the Solaris live DVD since the underlying design is essentially the same as Belenix. And after a couple of hours of hacking around, I did get a live USB key based on the Solaris Express build 44 bits working. It worked very well, the demo was quite a hit. The main issue I had was with the script not correctly calculating the size of the partitions to feed to rmformat. I was able to get that done by hand, but it took some tedious trial and error. That may have been the result of my 2GB Memorex key having the U3 technology on it, haven't analyzed it further. I also ended up using "find|cpio -pmudv" rather than cp to transfer the .iso's contents to the key, but that was mostly so that I'd have some visible progress to watch as I've had some odd behavior with the USB ports seeming to go offline in the past. We'll definitely want to integrate this into the main kit so that generating a .iso isn't a required step. Interestingly, after my flight back to Boston the Ferrari's DVD drive has decided to start working again. Guess it didn't like the California air ;-) Dave
