[ug-bosug] installing solaris on external hard drive

[Amit Kumar Saha]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Pavan Chandrashekar
<Pavan.Chandrashekar at sun.com> wrote:
> Kurchi Subhra Hazra wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > I recently bought a 160 GB external hard drive (maxtor) .Is there any
>  > way to partition that and install opensolaris onto a part of the drive?
>  > Any resource to help me out?
>
>  Do you connect the drive to the PC via USB?
>  If so, make sure that the BIOS supports booting via USB.
>  If this support is available, there is absolutely no difference with
>  your internal hard disk and your external disk.

yes, I tried installing Indiana to my USB pen drive. And it was gonna
work fine- as it showed me the drive when i started the installation
process but I aborted it as its capacity was 2GB:-), i just wanted to
see if it will work!


Regards,
Amit
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