Karen Tung wrote: > 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 There is an initial interactive curses style mockup at http://ucsd.sfbay/projects/solaris/subprojects/install/. Follow the link under the first project, "Slim Text-based installer".
Is the target for this a desktop system or a server. If the latter, as suggested by SPARC, we might want to include an option for static IP setup. But I agree that we should not ask a lot more questions. > - 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??) Can the resulting installation of OpenSolaris run w/ reasonable performance in 128mb? Frank > > Please share your thoughts and opinions on this. > > Thanks, > > --Karen > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
