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Friday December 08, 2006
Cool! OpenSolaris on a USB Bootable drive
BeleniX, a distro of OpenSolaris,
can now boot from a USB thumb drive. A simple USB installer script is available that can dump the LiveCD contents to a USB thumb drive and make it bootable.
Read about it
here at the Belenix site.
BeleniX is an OpenSolaris distribution which is currently a LiveCD (runs directly off the CD). It includes all the features of OpenSolaris and adds a whole variety of opensource packages. It can be installed to harddisk as well.BeleniX is free to use modify and distribute.
You can watch the
YouTube Video here.
BeleniX is one of several OpenSolaris Distros. The others are:
This particular addition was made by an enthusiast, Anil Gulecha , who's an engineering student in Bangalore, who picked up OpenSolaris on his own and has started making additions to it. Go Anil! Go OpenSolaris!
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Posted by Joe G on December 11, 2006 at 10:10 PM PST #