Alternately I can provide some excerpts from the Indiana documentation 
such as:

1) updating GRUB menu after install for non-OpenSolaris systems
2) after installing you can use IPS...
3) describe new BE utility for managing multiple boot environments

Barbara


Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote:
> For SXDE releases, the messages displayed were various marketing pitches 
> about what's
> latest and greatest in Solaris-land. 
>
> Do we want to ask Glynn to submit some marketing messages to display?
>
> Barbara
>
>
>
> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>   
>> Barbara Lundquist wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Who is providing the progress messages? I can help review.
>>>
>>> Also, I looked at iso image for build 85 and the welcome screen did not 
>>> have the corrected docs links that I'd provided. Are those corrections
>>> in build 86?  Build 86 is not yet available for me to look at.
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>    These are coming from the Transfer Module and I'm on the hook for that.
>>    Can you please suggest alternatives.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Moinak.
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>>
>>> Frank Ludolph wrote:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Niall Power wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>>>> I installed from a test iso today and saw the new progress messages 
>>>>> during the installation phase.
>>>>> I think the appropriateness of some is debatable. Once the target 
>>>>> instantiation bit was done and the transfer phase began, the messages I 
>>>>> saw were as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. "Building cpio file lists"
>>>>> 2. "Transferring LiveCD Contents"
>>>>> 3. "Fixing zero-length files"
>>>>> 4. "Extracting archives"
>>>>> 5. "Cleaning up"
>>>>>
>>>>> 1 and 3 definitely seem unsuitable to me. There is too much 
>>>>> implementation specific
>>>>> information that indicates how rather than what is being done, at least 
>>>>> to my mind.
>>>>> These messages should not be treated like a debug log.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>   
>>>>>     
>>>>>       
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>>>> I agree. Those two refer to internal implementation rather than stating 
>>>> the activity from an understandable end user point of view. Even 4 is 
>>>> questionable.
>>>>
>>>> Frank
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Niall.
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