Hi Karen, On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Karen Tung wrote:
> Alok Aggarwal wrote: >> I have posted the first draft of the Bootable AI Image >> functional specification at - >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Bootable_AI_Image/bootable.ai.spec.txt >> >> >> Please take a look and provide feedback by COB, Thursday >> July 30th. >> >> Thanks, >> Alok >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > > Hi Alok, > > Here are my comments: > > - I don't see it mentioned anywhere in the spec. Is this "bootable AI image" > the same > as the image used for installing over the network? I think it is, based on > the content of > the rest of the spec, but it would be better if it is clearly specified. That is the intent, I will make it clear in the spec. > - Will "bootable AI USB images" be created? For x86 it is fairly easy. What > about for SPARC? It's not clear to me that there's a desire to have bootable AI usb images, it doesn't appear to be 80% of the use cases. In general, are SPARC usb images hard to create or we just haven't created them to know? I just took a quick look at usbgen and all it does is a straight copy of the iso contents into a UFS file system. The only implication this has is, SPARC usb images can be created on a SPARC machine and not an x86 machine. > - What about monitoring of the install progress. In AI today, the install > will start "in the background", > and users will be presented with the console, and they can login from the > console and monitor the logs. > What about with bootable AI? What's the experience like? How will the user > monitor the install progress or > detect errors? The user experience is the same as AI in it's current form. I will call this out clearly in the spec. > - Section 3.5: > > * depending on what it is done to re-work the live-fs-root script, there > could > be other changes to DC finalizer scripts besides changes that is needed to > present the > experience in Section 3.1 Okay, I'll work with you to understand the impact here. > * DC currently doesn't make many bootable SPARC images, there need to be > changes > in the finalizer script(s) to do that. That's a good point, I'll make a note of it. I will need to work with you on this part as well. Thanks for the feedback, Alok
