2012-08-20 18:37, Gary Mills пишет:
What if I really do want to create a bootable USB stick. Is this possible on OI?
I believe, in this case the stick's contents should look like a bootable device to the computer's BIOS. Usually this means that some program is available starting at sector zero, and by reading and executing it, the computer goes on to find and boot the OS - just like with a diskette, hard-drive, etc. Particular implementations usually differ in that either an USB stick emulates a HDD - complete with an MBR partition table, including the few bytes to point to a bootloader image like GRUB - or a floppy disk with an FS starting right away and covering the whole device (with the pointer to bootloader being a small part of the FS header in the first sector). True, I did not try to do this on OI. Still, following the scent of OI LiveUSB creation suggestions, you can download an image of the MBR with bootloader for a 1Gb or 2Gb stick, and the image, I believe, includes a definition for a primary partition of the named size. Then you DD the *.USB image onto the partition which now is defined on the stick. In case of FreeDOS image, you mkfs a FAT (pcfs) filesystem on this partition, mount it and copy over the files. Likely you can just dd an image of the floppy onto this partition instead, and be done with it :\ Alternately, some Linux-based LiveCDs include ways to boot an unaltered ISO image from a USB stick; I believe this is done with utilities from syslinux (which practically translate into binary images of appropriate bootloaders). HTH, //Jim _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss