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Creating OpenSolaris USB sticks from Windows

Friday Apr 10, 2009

A utility like this has been on my list of things to do forever, and I'm *really* happy to see that someone in the community has done the work. Just a caution that I haven't tried it out yet, so no comment on how well it works.

OpenSolaris Live USB Creator (Windows/.NET) ‎(PID0.ORG DevZone)‎

If you do try it out, I recommend build 111, which we just released a couple of days ago. It's getting pretty close to the end of development for the 2009.06 release, so we'd love some additional testing.

Anyone up for doing a similar tool for Linux (and adding a GUI to the OpenSolaris tool)?

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Posted at 02:09PM Apr 10, 2009 by dminer in OpenSolaris_Installation
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Toshiba + OpenSolaris laptops now shipping

Wednesday Apr 01, 2009

Following up to my entry from January, the Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptops are at last available for order. They come with 2008.11 pre-installed, and include a year's worth of OpenSolaris support. I've been using the R500, which is the R600's little brother, for the past few weeks and can say that it's really an enjoyable, lightweight laptop for everyday use. A little too slow to be a great development machine, but it does a fine job with all of the other things that take up a lot of my time, and it's a great size for travel, which is the reason I chose it. I use VNC to my desktop shared via the Vino server for running heavy-duty development tasks like building OpenSolaris images.

Now we just need to include copies of OpenSolaris Bible with each one for the perfect bundle ;-)