[ug-bosug] installing solaris on external hard drive

[Anil Gulecha]

On 4/17/08, Amit Kumar Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!
>

A better option for pen drive is to use the usbdump tool to install to
usb. ITs not recommended to use a USB as a hard disk as flash drives
have much lower life, and continuous read write could render the usb
useless.

the tool can be downloaded from
http://in.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=50625&tstart=90
from teh first post. You will need to run this in from the Live CD
after plugging  in usb.

Anil