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OpenSolaris Developer Preview on USB
OpenSolaris Developer Preview
I download the ISO and burn to a few CDs just in time for NJEdge.net annual event on Nov 01
I demonstrated the preview to few customer and even give out one of the CD to SE from cisco
Everyone was impressed
When I try to install on my 2GB USB drive, it complian that it need to be at least 4GB
Today I follow the instruction on this link
http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_developer_preview_on_usb
Put the image on a 1GB USB stick the followings are some screen shot,
Keep in mind that the machine has nv b76 installed so the mercuial is already installed
bash-3.2# hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/caiman/distro_constructor
The authenticity of host 'hg.opensolaris.org (72.5.123.5)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 63:b9:7a:f3:dc:a4:47:a7:a5:50:ef:05:78:39:8d:ad.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
remote: Warning: Permanently added 'hg.opensolaris.org,72.5.123.5' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
destination directory: distro_constructor
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 46 changesets with 255 changes to 190 files
179 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
bash-3.2# pwd
/export/home/htsao
bash-3.2# ls -lt |more
total 28196932
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 512 Nov 2 09:55 distro_constructor
bash-3.2# cd distro_constructor
bash-3.2# ls
README packages src test_data tools usr
bash-3.2# cd tools
bash-3.2# ls
extract_postrun proc_slist.pl usbcopy
listusb proc_tracedata usbgen
bash-3.2#
bash-3.2# ./usbgen /export/home/htsao/in-preview.iso /export/home/htsao/usb-in-previ ew.iso `pwd` /tmp
/dev/rlofi/3: Unable to find Media type. Proceeding with system determined parameter s.
/dev/rlofi/3: 1433400 sectors in 2389 cylinders of 1 tracks, 600 sectors 699.9MB in 150 cyl groups (16 c/g, 4.69MB/g, 2240 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -F ufs -o b=#) at:
32, 9632, 19232, 28832, 38432, 48032, 57632, 67232, 76832, 86432,
1344032, 1353632, 1363232, 1372832, 1382432, 1392032, 1401632, 1411232, 1420832, 1430432
Copying ISO contents to USB image
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1289920 blocks
Creating temporary microroot
Replacing USB specific files
Copying microroot to USB
Cleaning up.
=== ./usbgen completed at Fri Nov 2 12:38:00 EDT 2
bash-3.2# ./usbcopy /export/home/ht sao/usb-in-preview.iso
Found the following USB devices:
0: /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0 984.0 MB PNY USB 2.0 FD PMAP
Enter the number of your choice: 0
WARNING: All data on your USB storage will be lost.
Are you sure you want to install to
PNY USB 2.0 FD PMAP, 984 MB at /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0 ?(y/n) y
umount: warning: /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 not in mnttab
umount: /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 not mounted
Copying image to USB device
44800+0 records in
44800+0 records out
real 16m47.259s
user 0m0.189s
sys 0m3.242s
Installing grub to USB device /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
Completed copy to USB
bash-3.2#
Posted at 01:24PM Nov 02, 2007 by hstsao in opensolaris |