Putting OpenSolaris on a USB stick is part of the distribution
\nconstructor project. It’s very simple, however, right now, one must be running on a Solaris host; though there are some interesting ways to get around this, just we need someone to spend some time to do it. Well, on a Solaris host, to begin with:
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To get the OpenSolaris Caiman Project<\/a> (which includes the Distribution Constructor<\/a>) use Mercurial (see hg(1)<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n One can now use the SUNWdistro-const IPS package on OpenSolaris, if running build 99 or newer, to get the Distribution Constructor! To install SUNWdistro-const use the Package Manager GUI or issue the following command (as root, or using pfexec(1)<\/tt>) pkg install SUNWdistro-const<\/tt>.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n To get the latest development build of OpenSolaris, see the main page of http:\/\/genunix.ORG<\/a> for ISOs, however, the latest full release of OpenSolaris can be found by going to http:\/\/OpenSolaris.COM\/get<\/a><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n Here, one use of the Distribution Constructor is to take an ISO image and change the grub menu entries for a USB device (opposed to a CD\/DVD) and change some permissions for running on a read-write media instead of a read-only one.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n To generate a USB image from an ISO run: Lastly, the Distribution Constructor can copy the image to a USB disk (memory stick or hard disk). (This is what currently requires Solaris.) Here, the stick has fdisk(1) run on it and the Grub menu written. A nifty idea which was putback by Bill Moore<\/a> uses dd(1) to copy blocks and since USB sticks tend to be relatively unreliable, uses md5sum(1) to checksum what was written matches what should have been.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n To copy the image, run A question I get asked often is, “How do I create OpenSolaris USB sticks?” Well, it’s super simple, here’s how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clayb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This would put the project’s “gate” into a folder called slim_source<\/tt>:
hg clone ssh:\/\/anon@hg.opensolaris.org\/hg\/caiman\/slim_source slim_source<\/tt><\/strike><\/p>\n<\/dd>\nslim_source\/usr\/src\/cmd\/install-tools\/<\/strike>\/usr\/bin\/usbgen <iso> <new usb file> \/tmp<\/tt>.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\nslim_source\/usr\/src\/cmd\/install-tools\/<\/strike>\/usr\/bin\/usbcopy <new usb file><\/tt>.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"