[ug-bosug] [Fwd: Re: [livemedia-discuss] Announcement : LiveUSB scripts for Belenix released]

[Joe G (Joseph George)]

For those who are not on the Live Media project alias. Dave Miner used 
Anil's toolkit to create a Solaris Express LiveUSB. Pretty cool!

Anil: Congrats! Time to get your work into the LiveMedia project!

~Joe


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [livemedia-discuss] Announcement : LiveUSB scripts for 
Belenix released
Date: 	Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:23:29 -0400
From: 	Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at Sun.COM>
To: 	Anil verve <anil.verve at gmail.com>
CC: 	livemedia-discuss at opensolaris.org
References: 	<148d59250609250844m448f7d02k8f7ea5b338feebde at mail.gmail.com>



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Anil verve wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been working on creating a liveUSB for a few weeks and now have a 
> script ready :)
> 
> This makes it really easy to get a bootable USB with OpenSolaris on it 
> by installing Belenix 0.5.0 on a USB pen drive. Belenix is now the first 
> OpenSolaris distribution able to run off a USB drive, and one of the few 
> *nix distributions that boot and run off a thumb drive.
> 

This turned out to be quite useful to me last week.  We were having a 
"science fair" set of demos of ongoing Solaris work for the Solaris OS 
Ambassadors on Thursday, and as I was getting the demo of our Caiman 
mockup on top of the live DVD set up on Wednesday night, it turned out 
my Ferrari 3400's DVD drive's eject mechanism had locked itself in the 
"eject" position, so I couldn't get the live DVD (or any other DVD) 
inserted.  After several attempts to get it functioning, I thought, 
well, maybe I can get Anil's scripts to work for the Solaris live DVD 
since the underlying design is essentially the same as Belenix.  And 
after a couple of hours of hacking around, I did get a live USB key 
based on the Solaris Express build 44 bits working.  It worked very 
well, the demo was quite a hit.

The main issue I had was with the script not correctly calculating the 
size of the partitions to feed to rmformat.  I was able to get that done 
by hand, but it took some tedious trial and error.  That may have been 
the result of my 2GB Memorex key having the U3 technology on it, haven't 
analyzed it further.  I also ended up using "find|cpio -pmudv" rather 
than cp to transfer the .iso's contents to the key, but that was mostly 
so that I'd have some visible progress to watch as I've had some odd 
behavior with the USB ports seeming to go offline in the past.

We'll definitely want to integrate this into the main kit so that 
generating a .iso isn't a required step.

Interestingly, after my flight back to Boston the Ferrari's DVD drive 
has decided to start working again.  Guess it didn't like the California 
air ;-)

Dave
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