Getting OpenSolaris into an USB stick
Just in case anyone else didn't know how to "burn" the OpenSolaris Developer Preview into an USB stick - and as a virtual note to self ;)
After downloading it, get a copy of the distro constructor repository:
hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/caiman/distro_constructor
Then
distro_constructor/tools/usbgen [iso image] [usb image] `pwd` [tmpdir]
And
distro_constructor/tools/usbcopy [usb image]
Pretty simple, huh?
Looking forward to May 5th, when the first official release comes out.
IPS looks reaaaly good and so does ZFS, DTrace, MDB, Containers, Pools, psets,... on a smaller distribution.
I installed it on a Toshiba Portege from the USB stick. Half an hour of a smooth install later and everything was set. The audio driver wasn't there so I'm messing around with the OSS stuff, but the NIC and wireless devices work like a charm :)
*original instructions here
