Problem Statement:
* Currently installing a client where the booted image doesn't
match the OS bits being installed, the installation will fail
in unexpected and undefined ways.
* Further the user is given no information on why we failed
and the failure is not handled or logged gracefully.
* Additionally both the user and the installer application
have no insight into where or why we failed.
I would like to get any input from Ethan, Karen, Jack, Frank and
anyone else interested on the problem statement by 5pm PST on
Wednesday.
I've also added a wiki page for this information and added meeting
notes as well as other information.
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/CVERS/
Thanks!
-evan
More notes...
The areas of possible incompatibilities:
1) Architecture, SPARC or X86/64 (for image or archive based install).
2) OS version the client is booted to
3) installer version
4) The type of install image we are using. For example Package
based, archive(cpio, etc) based or image (replicated or recovery
image) based.
5) OS version being installed
6) manifest and schema versioning to make sure they match. (This is
part of Jack's XML parsing work)
