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# 15  
Old 03-16-2017
I had a look into this and actually tried it out. The steps I ended up with are:

Boot from the Solaris USB Live media and let it boot up to the full GUI (X-Windows)
Open a terminal and 'su' to root. Password is 'solaris'.
Put the second USB memory stick into a USB port.
Run 'format' and select this second stick.
Note: To get 'format' to list the device I needed to run in expert mode:
Code:
 
 # format -e

Select 'fdisk' and create a FAT32 partition on the stick. Select 100% occupancy, and exit ('update disk config and exit').

In this example the device was c2t0d0p0 so write out a filesystem on the stick:
Code:
 
 # mkfs -F pcfs -o fat=32 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0:c

Power down
Code:
# init 0

Remove the second stick and stuff it into a Windows system (in my case I was using Windows 7 SP1) and the stick should auto-mount normally. Copy whatever required files to it.

Place stick back into the Solaris box and boot from the USB Live media stick which you left there. Wait for the full GUI to appear. 'su' to root again. The second stick should automatically mount under '/media/NONAME/.....'

Give that a go. It worked for me. Hope that helps.

Last edited by hicksd8; 03-16-2017 at 03:54 PM..
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# 16  
Old 03-21-2017
Unfortunately, I have been pulled on some other tasks so I have not been able to fully commit time to exploring the recent suggestions posted.
I will provide some feedback on this once I am able do so but it is going to be sometime before I am able to get back to this.
Many thanks to hicksd8 and jlliagre for the help in this.
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