Sue,
Thanks for the response.
Sue Sohn wrote:
> Sundar Yamunachari wrote:
>> Susan Sohn wrote:
>>> I have posted the functional specification for the Text Installer at:
>>>
>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/TextInstallerProject/spec_v1
>>>
>>>
>>> Please review and provide comments by Tuesday, July 14, at 5pm Pacific.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sue
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>> Sue,
>>
>> Section 1.2: What is meant by "server installations"?
>
> We just meant it to mean an installation of OpenSolaris onto a server
> (vs. a desktop).
Is there a set of packages that define a server and a desktop?
>>
>> Section 1.4.3: Does this means that the system installed using text
>> installer will be different from the system installed using GUI
>> installed and AI? Does the media contains all the software needed for
>> the server installation?
>
> Yes, that is what it means. Yes, the media would contain all of the
> software needed for installation.
okay.
>
>> Section 2.3: Can the user login to the system when the installation
>> is going on?
>
> Yes, it is desired that the user would be able to login to the system
> during the installation if ssh is enabled. We will need to look into
> how to do this for sparc.
Why only for sparc? Can you login to a X86 system not a livecd
environment) while it is installing in text mode?
>
>> Section 3.4.5: Can you add the Solaris partition information such as
>> "Only Solaris partition can be created and only one Solaris partition
>> is allowed per disk"
>
> Yes, we'll note this, as well as noting that we will also be allowed
> to create an extended partition in the future.
okay.
>
>> Section 3.4.6: Are you planning to list slice 2, 8 and 9? The user
>> cannot change them.
>
> Will need to reconfirm with Frank what the intent is here.
okay.
>
>> Section 3.4.7: What is meant by "It is TBD whether the text installer
>> should reconfigure the microroot environment after installation"?
>
> Included in my earlier response to Karen this morning.
Reproduced your response: "This was referring to setting up networking
in the microroot to use the values provided by the user (it was cryptic
because I forgot to update it prior to posting). This would need to be
done during early installation if we were doing the install from IPS,
but not necessarily important to do it otherwise."
This is configuration changes in the environment during installation (to
setup the network). What is the relation of this setup with the
reconfiguration after installation (the original statement in 3.4.7).
>
>> Section 3.4.12: The statement "The default value will be the language
>> selected while booting" is confusing. Do you mean the language chosen
>> for the installation?
>
> Updated to:
>
> This defaults to the language chosen for use during installation.
okay.
>
>> Section 4: "x86 LiveCD additions" -- Section 1.2 mentions that the
>> primary target is server installations. What does this deliverable mean?
>
> Although the primary target is server installations, it is also
> thought to be desirable to provide the text installer on the livecd,
> for desktop users.
okay.
>
>> Section 5.2: This scenario assumes that the desktop always has more
>> packages than the server. Is that always true? Also one of the reason
>> for using the text installer is that the machine doesn't have network
>> access. How can it access repo to install additional packages?
>
> The desktop may not have more packages in total than the server, but
> it will have additional packages that a server doesn't need, such as
> packages to support a gnome desktop environment. We will change the
> word "additional" to "supplemental" to clarify. It was unintentional
> that this scenario implied that the user didn't have network access.
> This will be corrected in the spec.
okay.
Thanks,
Sundar
>
> Thank you for your comments,
> Sue
>
>
