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I have a blank T5120 server without any optical drive onto which I want to install Solaris 11.3. I downloaded the sol-11_3-text-sparc.usb installer. The docs tell me to use a tool named usbcopy to fill a stick.
I don't have this tool since I don't have a Solaris box yet. But I do have FreeBSD running, which reports
$ file sol-11_3-text-sparc.usb
sol-11_3-text-sparc.usb: Unix Fast File system [v1] (big-endian),
last mounted on /export/dc/s11/s11_3sru01/builds/text/build_data/tmp/tmpcScvPf-,
last written at Tue Oct 6 16:15:52 2015, clean flag 1,
number of blocks 1014784, number of data blocks 953823,
number of cylinder groups 26, block size 8192, fragment size 1024,
minimum percentage of free blocks 6, rotational delay 0ms,
disk rotational speed 3rps, TIME optimization
Can I simply
dd if=sol-11_3-text-sparc.usb of=/dev/da3 # Where da3 would be the whole stick
or does usbcopy provide some extra processing?
Jens
Posted 2015-12-23T14:43:00.900
Reputation: 507
usb copy may format USB drive to hold 2 partition. however your approch looks good. usb tools are also available on windows for what matter. if you feel adventurous, you can run
dd if=sol.iso of=/dev/sdaon server you are running. (at least this work for tumbleweed). this will reset your system – Archemar – 2015-12-23T15:01:41.183Hopefully needless, but when using dd 1) MAKE SURE YOU SPECIFY THE RIGHT DISK 2) Take care the the pen drive is not mounted. 3) Sync information afterwards (dd has an option for that. IIRc then the console command
syncno longer guarantees that data is writting to disk so do not use that). – Hennes – 2015-12-23T15:07:02.250