Ah If you want to use OI as base OS, you could put only the bootloader
on the USB and do the rest on the External SSD with an Installed system
there. Our bootloader would work around the UEFI problem.
You would only need to dump the UEFI partition to the USB stick once and
then chainboot the SSD from that loader.
A loader stick that works around all kinks of any UEFI.
-Till
On 09.01.21 13:04, Hung Nguyen Gia wrote:
My friend has a very powerful computer with 32 cores (including hyper
threading) and 64 GB of RAM. My computer only has 4 cores and 8 GB of RAM. He
rarely uses it, though. Most of the time he's outside to filming. He only uses
it a bit on weekend to do the rendering job. I'm allowed to use this computer.
The only requirement is I'm not allowed to touch the hard disk.
So I workaround this by using Live USB Stick. They could serve the same role as
an installed system. First, I use MX Snapshot to dump the MX Linux I'm using on
my computer to an ISO image then I use MX Live USB Maker to create the Live USB
Stick. This live system already has everything I needed, all of the
applications and my settings are there. VirtualBox even usable in this form. I
attach an external SSD and use it to store my VM images. The live system
doesn't need to be fast, so an USB stick is enough, but the VM images need to
be on a fast device to help performance. With this setup, I used VirtualBox to
setup OpenIndiana VM to build Pale Moon from source myself so I always have the
latest version of it and I even have resources left to tinkering with another
OI VM and watching youtube's 4K videos in the mean while on the MX Linux host.
Building Pale Moon on my own machine is very slow but it's blazing fast on this
system.
Almost forgot, for some unknown reasons, maybe because of a buggy UEFI
firmware, the external SSD is unable to boot. Only USB sticks are allowed to
boot.
Yes, my setup is a bit weirded. Maybe it doesn't fit with OI at all. But I
really hope someday I could use OI in place of MX Linux for this job.
---- On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 19:48:49 +0700 Till Wegmueller <[email protected]>
wrote ----
> We use distro constructor to build our images. But It's definitely not
> easy to use.
>
> BTW what do you want to accomplish? It sounds like that you try to make
> OI confine to a workflow that you are used to which does not exist here.
> Have you tried using exising workflows from OI first to get yourself
> familiar?
>
> Do you need a system to compile things and throw awaY? Have a look into
> zones and vagrant. We even have scripts in oi-userland to use zones for
> clean builds. And officially supported vagrant images. including a
> vagrantfile in oi-userland so you can just type "vagrant up" in the repo
> root and it gets you a complete environment to compile and package
> software. No need to reinvent the wheel here.
>
> -Till
>
> On 09.01.21 08:03, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> > On MX Linux, we have the technology to doing so. It's very straight
forward using graphical tools.
> >
> > Let me describe what I wanted to do. For example, the OI live system
doesn't have the compiler tool chain installed. I want to make a usb/iso image of OI
with the build-essential package installed. How could I do it?
> >
> > I imagined the procedure could be:
> >
> > Install OI into disk. Update the system and install the build-essential
package. Then using rsync to sync the running system into a directory. Extract the OI
usb/iso image. After that, using lofiadm to make a .zlib image of that directory to
replace the .zlib image on the OI usb/iso image. Then using appropriate tools to
rebuild the OI usb/iso image.
> >
> > Would that work? Thanks.
> >
> > p/s: It's much better if OI has the graphical tools to help doing it like
MX Linux does, though.
> >
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