Susan Sohn wrote: > And even later... > > I am not sure if #6 is intended to be a complete list or is really a > "such as" list, but there have been bugs about wanting to set such > things as keyboard type, final authority url, and root as > role/non-role (maybe this is included in "root account"). Might any of > these be possible additions? It is not a complete list. We want to have a minimum list so that system can come up and be useful after reboot. keyboard may need to be added. > > And thinking about what Jean said below about triggering the user > interface makes me wonder if there will be a way to clear out the > configuration somehow (and then retrigger the user interface to set > things differently)? Clearing out the configuration is the current sysid implementation. Our requirement is a way to change the configuration. The underlying implementation can have an explicit interface to clear out or just overwrite the existing configuration.
Thanks, Sundar > > Sue > > On 05/29/09 10:19, Jean McCormack wrote: >> I'm late too. Not much to comment on though. If my questions are >> outside the scope of the project just let me know. >> >> >> Under needs #3, "Needs a user interface to allow user to enter system >> configuration parameters >> during the boot. It also needs a mechanism to trigger the user >> interface when required. This >> will be needed for systems shipped with preinstall images." >> >> Does this mean that the user interface will always be triggered >> during boot or only the first boot after an install? And we also want >> the ability to trigger it at other times? >> >> needs #4: Is this user supplied profile what is generated from #3 >> above? or #2? If not, where does it come from? How does the user >> generate this? >> >> Jean >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Jack Schwartz wrote: >>> Hi Sundar. >>> >>> Here are a few comments / thoughts, hopefully not too late. >>> >>> Under the "needs" section, we ask for a user interface to allow a >>> user to enter the parameters during boot. Is there a way we can >>> leverage this user interface for creating an SMF enhanced profile >>> for use by AI? >>> >>> Item 5 in the "needs" section: reading between the lines, looks like >>> "invalid" here means semantically invalid, since syntactically >>> invalid entries wouldn't be allowed in the file in the first place. >>> This makes sense as semantically invalid entries are just entries >>> which don't apply to that particular system, for example an >>> unsupported locale. Is this the reasoning behind this? >>> >>> Item 6 does not have setup for regular users. Wouldn't SMF be the >>> place to do this? After all, it sets up the root account. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jack >>> >>> Sundar Yamunachari wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Please review and provide feedback before COB on Thursday, >>>> 05/28/09 on the install requirements for Enhanced SMF profiles at >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/ai_design/smf_enhanced_profiles_meeting.txt >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Sundar >>>> >>>> Sundar Yamunachari wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Ethan Quach and Sundar Yamunachari of the OpenSolaris >>>>> installation team met with Liane Praza of the SMF team to discuss >>>>> install requirements for SMF enhanced profiles. The meeting >>>>> summary is posted at >>>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/ai_design/smf_enhanced_profiles_meeting.txt >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Sundar >>>>> >>>>> >>>> before COB on Thursday, 05/28/09 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
