Hi Darren,
> All looks promising... > > One comment that I have is w.r.t. the amount of RAM needed on the client for > an install - is it really necessary for 1GB? > > For now 1GB is necessary. But, we don't plan to require this amount for the released product. The way the prototype is implemented is that we use http to download the additional, non microroot files, to the client. These additional files, currently in the form of compressed lofi archives, contain the binaries, etc, that are necessary to bring up the /usr, /opt, and other filesystems and so we can invoke the AI program. The choice of http was deliberate. I wanted to use a protocol that could also be used for WAN installations. The idea is that we keep the architecture of the net image the same across different use cases, LAN, WAN, flash. Using http instead of some other file sharing protocol like NFS or CIFS, means more RAM is required. However, one of our top priorities is to define the net image architecture such that we don't require that much RAM. I did trim the pkg list for these images considerably from the current liveCD image, but a lot of work still needs to be done to reduce the sizes further. > This would seem to be quite a lot given that an interactive install require > 768Mb - and it was always said that the reason for this high amount was the > use of a UI during the install. Does the AI install use a UI? > > It is a lot, I agree. One difference between OpenSolaris and the SXCE installer is that we use IPS for the package installations to build our images. And, we only remove things from the microroot and the compressed lofi archives at the pkg level, not the file level as we do in SXCE. We build the images much differently for OpenSolaris. Also, the 2nd prototype image contains a local IPS repository and we install the additional packages from this. This requires a bit of RAM as well, although I haven't done much to determine how much of the memory requirement is this processing. But, again, one of our highest priorities is to reduce the RAM requirement and to find a better way to dynamically build the microroot and the other archives required to boot and install the clients. Regards, sarah **** > Thanks, > > Darren. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > >
