Danek Duvall wrote: > There's a choice of curses vs terminal (line-by-line). Both may be > required, in case the terminal can't be set up enough for curses to be > happy. >
What evidence do we have that such a problem persists today? I haven't run into anything that couldn't do curses in decades. As I recall, Solaris ttinstall is purely curses, too. > Also, I'd really like to see the text installer run from an already > installed OpenSolaris instance, so I can do an install on another drive or > partition. Whether that operates on a LiveCD / USB image, or whether it > does everything over the network (give it a URL and go) doesn't matter much > to me; both would be pretty nice. Actually, I guess this could be a > feature of the GUI installer, too. > That's always been envisioned, which is why we don't remove the GUI from the installed system, but I'd like to hear more about your anticipated use case, if you can elaborate. Dave
