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>
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.
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
.
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:
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!