Glenn Lagasse wrote: > Hi Jack, > > * Jack Schwartz (Jack.A.Schwartz at Sun.COM) wrote: > >>> Dave: Note that it's the boot after installation that this is run >>> so driver HBA for installation should not be an issue. >>> >> No, it's not the boot after installation. Driver Update is run >> *before* the installation, so the installer can take advantage of >> any devices which had missing drivers in a Live CD or text-install >> environment. >> >> I see the issue about error handling... There's already a >> notification popup which displays if one or more devices are missing >> a driver after the silent mode auto-installation. If there are >> errors, we can just display in the popup that errors occurred and 1) >> to check a logfile for details, 2) tell the user to try again. In >> interactive mode there should be some way of seeing an error. >> >> Frank, your thoughts? >> >> I suggest that if one or more "silent-load" drivers fail to load a "missing drivers" notification can be posted. Clicking this would open the "add drivers" panel, or if one is already open, update it with the additional devices that don't have drivers as a result of the load failure. Extra credit for noting in the Drivers column that the driver failed to load. The user can retry and/or ignore if the driver is not critical.
Frank
