[ug-bosug] Belenix USB installer query

[Anil Gulecha]

On 4/10/07, Venky <venkytv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> I was trying to setup Belenix on a USB drive here for a friend.
> The instructions right now seem to imply you need BeleniX
> installed on the hard disk to be able to dump it to the USB
> drive.  Is that correct?
>
> I tried a couple of quick hacks to see if I can get usbdump.sh to
> run off the LiveCD and use the mounted BeleniX image instead of
> lofi-mounting the ISO.  It worked.. to a certain extent.  It
> fails to create slices on the USB disk.  (The "rmformat -s
> /tmp/slices ..." command fails with an exit code of 1 without an
> error message.)
>
> Any idea what might be wrong?  Is there a way to set up BeleniX
> on a USB drive right now without having to install it onto the
> hard disk first?


Hi Venky,

Yes you can install it on USb from within belenix...

1) Fdisk /dev/usb/path... and creat an active solaris partition (100%)
2) Format -e /dev/usb/path.. and manually create slices as:
    s0 : root partition (full USB) cylinder 1-end
    s8 : boot partion cylinder 0-0
3) newfs /dev/usb/path
4) mount /dev/usb/slice0 /mnt/usb
4) 'cp -rp@' all contents from /.cdrom/  to /mnt/usb(i assume you're running
from belenix on livecd)
5) cd /mnt/usb/boot/grub
6) installgrub -m stage1 stage2 /dev/usb/slice0

These are vague instructions to manually install it. Do let me know if I've
left something unclear.

Regards
Anil
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