BigAdmins

Its not a big deal to get the open solaris CD live image and install it in a PC. But what will happen if your cd drive is not working?. Thats happend with my not so old Sony Vaio VGN laptop. The interesting fact is that I could manage to boot an XP CD or anything related to Windows. But its so strange that my laptop is not in a mood to boot if i keep a Ubuntu or opensolaris live CD ! . So strange, i tried googling but no clue.  Just to keep it aside there is always another way to get out of the jungle !. The only option is to create an opensolaris live usb. There are couple of ways you can install make ubs live stick but the procedure here i am going to explain is simple and its work with windows. There are other methods like ./usbcopy from opensolaris it self.

There  is a windows tool that will allow Windows users to put a copy of OpenSolaris media on a usb stick. Download it from

http://devzone.sites.pid0.org/OpenSolaris/opensolaris-liveusb-creator

Download the open solaris image from here

http://genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-0906-111-x86.usb

Run the usb creator and select the image and thats it, you have a working live bootable usb stick. You can install opensolaris without a CD.