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Installing OpenIndiana

You need a PC (32 or 64-bit) with at least 512 megabytes of RAM, and 4 gigabytes (2 gigabytes for the text installer) of available disk space. You can also use virtual machine software such as VirtualBox or VMware.

To create a bootable USB device, you must use a USB storage device exactly 1 gigabyte (GB) or larger.
To create a live USB in Windows, use the OpenSolaris Live USB Creator.
To create a live USB in Solaris or OpenSolaris, use usbcopy.
To create a live USB on a Unix-like system (including Mac OS X), download the standard live USB and this file and run the following commands:
cat 1G.header <USB image file> | dd bs=1024k of=<path to raw USB storage device>

  • Boot your computer with the medium inserted. You may have to change the boot device order in your BIOS configuration.

    In VirtualBox 3.2 or later, "Use host I/O cache" must be enabled in the emulated storage controller used by the virtual machine to successfully boot OpenIndiana.

  • When you see a menu, press Enter to start OpenIndiana on your computer. As it runs, you will be prompted with a few questions.
  • You should eventually be presented with a desktop. You can use the Device Driver Utility to check if your hardware requires additional drivers.
  • Click on Install OpenIndiana to permanently install OpenIndiana on your computer.

If you do not see a menu after booting your computer with the DVD or USB stick, and instead see some text and a "grub>" prompt, there may be an error in your copy of the installer.

If you see a "login:" prompt after selecting your keyboard and language and no desktop appears after several seconds, there may be a problem with the drivers for your graphics hardware. Please let us know if this happens. Include the output of /usr/sbin/svcs -xv and the contents of the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log if possible.

The login for the text session is username jack, password jack. The installer is graphical and requires X11, although it is possible to use it over a network with SSH X forwarding if you enable SSH. For administrative access, prepend your commands with pfexec.

Creating the dd USB Live Image from OS X

Using Mac OS X to create the USB Live Image of OpenIndiana? These instructions may help.

You'll need at least a 2GB USB stick; this example uses a 4GB.

OS X includes all tools needed:

  • cURL - the - excellent! -tool for download (to know it is to love it!: cURL - by Daniel Stenberg)
  • md5 - to checksum the download
  • diskutil - to manage your disks
  • dd - writes the bootable image to USB stick

1. Download the dd image, and the corresponding checksum file. Be sure to download the image 'writable with dd'!

$ curl -OL http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/148/oi-dev-148-x86.usb.writable-with-dd
$ curl -OL http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/148/oi-dev-148-x86.usb.writable-with-dd.md5

2. Checksum your download - be sure you have a match!

$ cat oi-dev-148-x86.usb.writable-with-dd.md5
c2b907c428eaf3aa624fc057e7849c73c2b907c428eaf3aa624fc057e7849c73

$ md5 oi-dev-148-x86.usb.writable-with-dd
MD5 (oi-dev-148-x86.usb.writable-with-dd) = c2b907c428eaf3aa624fc057e7849c73

3. After plugging in the USB device you will use - and assuming it's been formatted, it will appear in diskutil.

In our example, we've used a 4GB USB stick, disk2, with a 1GB FAT_16 partition:

CAUTION: dd will erase all partitions, and all data, on this stick. Be sure of the disk# you are using!

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS iMac                    2.0 TB     disk0s2
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 GB     disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_16 DATADISK                1.0 GB     disk2s1

4. unmount the USB stick, if mounted:

$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful

5. Write the image using dd; we timed it:

$ time dd if=oi-dev-148-x86.usb.writable-with-dd of=/dev/disk2

2160767+0 records in
2160767+0 records out
1106312704 bytes transferred in 1379.597249 secs (801910 bytes/sec)

real	23m0.001s

Welcome to OpenIndiana! Enjoy!

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