Bart Smaalders wrote: > Sarah Jelinek wrote: > > >> ld be interesting to me. >>> In the current Jumpstart, begin and finish script are running in >>> miniroot environment and so all the tools may not be available. >>> Depending on how the image is setup in the new AI environment, there >>> may be some restrictions placed on the begin/finish scripts. >> Exactly correct. But, we have the ability with the DC to allow users >> to create their own distributions they can include things in the >> microroot that they deem necessary. > > Why not make this simpler? > > 1) The new AI gets booted and devices probed, etc. > The system is examined and a hardware config profile, > image selection, additional software and customer-supplied > finish script are selected from information obtained via > install server. > > 2) disks allocated according to hardware profile, > zpool is created, image laid down, and system is rebooted. > > 3) post-boot, additionally desired software is installed from > repository and customer supplied finish script is run in > actual system environment. > > The job of the AI is to lay down either a stock or customer > created working image, and setup post-boot customization > operations. > Where does the begin script fit?
Why install software, and run the finish script after boot? Why not before? If you're installing packages before boot, why not install them all? What's the difference between 'laying doan an image, and installing from a repository? -Kyle > - Bart >
