Hi Ethan, On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Ethan Quach wrote:
> Alok, > > 3.1 > > For the boot choices for Sparc, I would really rather see > us reserve "boot cdrom" to not automatically boot AI at > all. I know this is AI-specific media, but at some point, if > our medias merge, changing the user expectation of this > interface becomes extremely difficult. That is a good point. Perhaps "boot cdrom - prompt" would be better? What should the behavior be if a user uttered "boot cdrom"? > 3.2 > > Where do network-based AI boot and media-based AI > boot converge? In other words, when an AI client boots, > where does the knowledge in differences in boot-style end? The two converge after the service to locate a manifest to use has found a manifest to be used. The auto-installer service will subsequently invoke the installer in the same way regardless of media type. Alok
