A group of students from the Colorado School of Mines is interested to work on a Text-based installer for Open Solaris.
Just like all other redesign projects that's going on, I want to start by formulating a problem statement, and discuss the "features" we want to see in the text installer. So, let's not focus on the implementation details until we agree on the goal of the project. In my opinion, the text installer should: - work on both x86 and sparc - offer a similar installation experience and feature set as the existing slim GUI installer - the installation performance shouldn't defer too much from the GUI installer. (ie: if it takes 20 minutes to install via GUI, it should take about the same amount of time to install via the text installer) - memory requirement to do the installation (256mb?? 128mb??) Please share your thoughts and opinions on this. Thanks, --Karen
