Hello Andrew, I've just done a fresh install of Openindiana and noticed that the installer recognized an attached USB disk when it asked me where I wanted to install. I didn't use it but can you not just go ahead if it sees the disk ?
As a related matter I need WinXP for legacy reasons (OI doesn't want to know about my scanners - no support from xsane and I don't want to buy a new film scanner). I've just put WinXP in VirtualBox 4. Is there much difference between booting from a usb disk and running in VirtualBox ? I've no idea, but might try it to see. Cheers Guy --- On Sun, 3/4/11, Andrew Myers <[email protected]> wrote: From: Andrew Myers <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 3 April, 2011, 8:38 Hi Reg, Thanks for the suggestions. Is there instructions anywhere for how to create the USB boot disk? Many thanks, Andrew. ===================== Something I forgot to mention. You're a lot better off booting from a USB disk than setting up dual boot. Many years ago I got a system to boot Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux from the same disk. It took about a dozen installs to figure out how to do it. (the installers kept killing each other) Not long after that I installed removable drive trays in all my systems and stopped doing multiboots. I won't even consider doing it now. The only constraint on USB disk is you have to plug it into the same port each time. But it's a much better way to do things. I setup a friend's Dell D620 to boot Solaris 10 & Linux from a pair of USB disks w/ Vista on the internal disk. With the boot order setup as CD-USB-HD you only need to plug in the disk and bot to get the OS of your choice. Have Fun! Reg _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
