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Building OpenSolaris USB installer from Windows


The “official” way to build a USB install of OpenSolaris is to run usbcopy from a command prompt inside a running OpenSolaris system.  Well, ok, that’s not very convenient for me, so I was so happy to see Hiroshi Chonan’s Live USB creator for Windows.

Grab the USB image from genunix.org and you’re about 97% complete with this task.

I wanted to post here because a) this is extremely useful and cool, and b) it’s not explicitly stated on Hiroshi’s webpage, but if you’re running the USB creator on Vista or Windows 7, you need to right-click the program file and choose “Run as administrator” to make sure that the boot sector is appropriately installed on your USB stick.

As you can see in my next post, I’ve installed Windows 7 and OpenSolaris 2009.06 preview (B111a) on my Lenovo S10 netbook using USB sticks for both operating systems.

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  1. #1 by Dave C. - May 19th, 2009 at 17:05

    Hi Mark,

    I’m a user of one of your plug-ins – couldn’t find anywhere to send an email, so thought I’d make a plea where I could. Any chance you’ll update blogroll page for WP 2.7? It does a simple thing well for me, and I appreciate that. Feel free to delete this and apologies for it being off-topic.

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