Hi Reg, Actually this is what I'd done initially, and the problem was that it appeared to work but then wouldn't boot on subsequent attempts.
However what I'd done was booted from the live USB image (because of the SATA issue discussed elsewhere, I couldn't even get the live cd to boot). So I had 2 USB sticks inserted at once, which is possibly the problem since it appears the having it in the same port each time is important. So I'll try again, but this time will change the SATA setting in my BIOS (which when I checked yesterday does indeed let me boot from the live CD). Fingers crossed! Andrew. =============================================== Reginald Beardsley pulaskite at yahoo.com Sun Apr 3 15:20:41 UTC 2011 Previous message: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick Next message: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Boot the Live Image 2) Identify the internal disk so you don't stomp on it 3) Plug the USB disk into a convenient port You will ALWAYS need to plug into the same port to boot the disk. NB There are several removable volume managers which will try to mount the disk. That can make things a bit messy. Post if you run into trouble. 3) Install OI and select the USB disk as the target NB If you set the boot priority to CD-USB-HD it will boot OI anytime it sees the disk at boot time. If the disk is not plugged in it's a perfectly normal Windows machine. Very helpful if it's a company laptop as there's nothing for IT to get upset about. Have Fun! Reg _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
