A meeting was held to discuss possible changes to the text-based
installer UI wrt manual network configuration (some fields can be auto
detected) and the handling of EFI labeled disk/fdisk partitions and
disks/fdisk partitions >TB. (VTOC labeled disks are restricted to 2TB,
and Solaris can't currently boot from EFI labeled disks.)
The UI changes are:
1. Manually Configure: Gateway, DNS, and Domain can be auto-detected
so they should be optional; Change wording of on-screen help text
Handling of EFI labeled disks and disks >2TB: Issue is that EFI
labeled disks cannot be booted
Rewrite EFI labels to VTOC after warning of data loss and 2TB
limit
On unlabeled disks >2TB warn of 2TB limit and write VTOC label
Remove restrictions when EFI disks are bootable
2. Attempts to use fdisk partitions and unlabled disks >2TB will warn
of that only 2TB will be used (a VTOC lable will be created)
3. Attempts to use EFI labeled disks and fdisk partitions will:
1. Disk screen: display the current slice layout on the disk
screen (this is not a change)
2. Fdisk Partitions screen: if "use the whole disk" and disk
size is >2TB, warn that only 2TB will be used
3. Select Partition screen:
1. If new Solaris partition and partition size >2TB, warn
that only 2TB will be used.
2. If pre-existing Solaris partition: do nothing; see
Solaris Partition Slices
4. Solaris Partition Slices:
1. Display current EFI slices
2. Default to "Use the whole partition" and remove "Use a
slice..."
3. Add warning below "Use a slice..." location that
Solaris can't boot from partitions >2TB, that the
current content will be and that only 2TB will be used.
4. On F2 popup a confirmation with the same warning.
(Concerned that some users will accidentally F2
through this screen and not realize that data will be
lost.
5. Select Slice in Fdisk Partition: skipped
6. Solaris Slices: same as Solaris Partition Slices
7. Select Slice: skipped
Comments and suggestions welcomed. The UI spec will soon be updated to
reflect the above.
Frank
