> Sarah Jelinek wrote: > > > The missing hostname is an artifact of the fact > that we added the > > ability to set the hostname late in the design > cycle. We will fix this. > > > > Please remember to distinguish between hostname and > nodename. Today, > we often makes the primary ip address synonymous with > the nodename. > The nodename is the name of the machine. Locally, it > should be > an alias for localhost. Externally, looking up the > nodename may > get you it's primary address. >
Good point. > > > No, likely not. We want to put in the interactive > map, but it is a lot > > of work and we will likely not have time to make > this feature available > > for Dwarf. It is planned for a future project. > > > > Put in dots for the primary cities. Each dot has a > timezone and xy > location on the map. Take the user click and walk > through the list > of cities, picking the closest (dx^2+dy^2) one. If > you like, emphasize > the horizontal by scaling that differently since > timezones are largely > vertical. > There are in the order of 430 unique regions related to timezone in Solaris. To implement this correctly requires a map that that's geographically accurate so that coordinates can be mapped to x and y on the map. and cities appear where they ought to be. Also, timezones are far from vertical when you look at regions like central and east asia and eastern russia. www.worltimezone.com illustrates this well. Thanks, Niall. > > >> 6. First screen doesn't have any heading/label. > > > > Yep, I noticed that as well. We will fix. > > > >> 7. In the sysid screen, we are asking for a > "Hostname". > >> But, what if the user wants to go for DHCP and > I don't see any > >> choice with DHCP/Static Address! > > > > Yes, we will allow setting of the hostname but the > system will be > > configured initially as non-networked. We will make > use of NWAM(Network > > Auto Magic) and enable that to startup on first > reboot. This will > > automatically configure the network interface using > DHCP. > > > > See above re: difference between name of primary > interface and nodename. > > - Bart > > > -- > Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance > barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
