Creating OpenSolaris installation USB sticks on Windows

Friday Apr 10, 2009

It was great to read my mail this morning and see this:

http://devzone.sites.pid0.org/OpenSolaris/opensolaris-liveusb-creator

A nice GUI tool that will allow Windows users to put a copy of OpenSolaris media on a usb stick which they can use to boot machines without (and with if you'd rather save a CD) a cd/dvd-rom instead of needing to have Solaris/OpenSolaris already installed somewhere and using the usbcopy script.

Now, if we could get something similar written for Linux, Mac OS X and OpenSolaris the path to world domination would be even closer :-)

 I haven't tried this yet, so I can't speak to how well it does or does not work.  A USB image that can be written to a USB stick can be found at:

http://genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-0906-111-x86.usb

This is the latest snapshot of what will be the 2009.06 OpenSolaris release (which is shaping up quite nicely).

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Posted at 02:48PM Apr 10, 2009 by glagasse in General
Tags: opensolaris