Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris root fs on usb stick

2009-07-12 Thread evaldas
Hi, Initially I installed using .ISO image from http://www.genunix.org/, you could also try .USB image to see if it boots, some mortherboards are "picky" about some OSes, i.e. I couldn't boot into OpenSolaris and ESX4 on Asus M3A78-EM until disabled C1E (some dual core power related option) in

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris root fs on usb stick

2009-07-11 Thread Pico Aeterna
Hi Artisg, Thanks for your reply. By chance did you initially install Solaris on on your usb from livecd or did you copy your root fs from a current working Solaris installation. My problem is that when I boot from a livecd, Solaris recognizes my usb stick through the driver device utility,

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris root fs on usb stick

2009-07-11 Thread evaldas
Hi, Yes, running OpenSolaris on USB 8G stick since snv 101, currently snv 117, on HP ProLiant DL165 G5 server with 4 1TB SATA disks raidz pool (2.7 TB usable). It runs pretty smooth, but 8G for rpool is a little tight, especially when you do "pkg image-update", so I mounted /var/pkg/download/ o

[osol-discuss] Opensolaris root fs on usb stick

2009-07-10 Thread Pico Aeterna
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has successfully installed opensolaris on a USB stick, (not a LIVEcd) but an actual working installation. I am trying to setup a zraid zfs pool on a server and would prefer the OS to be run off of usb flash drive, instead of the primary drive. Does anyone think