[OmniOS-discuss] Omnios, VMware fusion

[Chris Nehren]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:54:21 +0200, Jan Holtzhausen wrote:
> Omni needs a virtual floppy drive to install.
> In OSX, open a terminal to a directory that fusion can browse to (~/Desktop
> is fine)
> ~> dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img
> There's your blank image.
> Now add a floppy device in fusion, point it to floppy.img.
> Go ahead and install on fusion.

This is a known issue. See http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/VMwareNotes
for our documentation of it.

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Chris Nehren
Site Reliability Engineer, OmniTI