Hi Sarah.
On 07/31/09 10:33, Sarah Jelinek wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> I am a little late to this party, but I do have a question/comment
> which I believe have not been addressed in the current thread on this.
>
> -Use Case 2:
>> At boot time, user is presented with the "main menu":
>> 1. Run installer
>> 2. Install missing drivers
>> 3. Shell
>> 4. Reboot
>>
> So, in call cases is the user going to be presented with the 'install
> missing drivers' option? Or only if we have found drivers are missing
> at boot time? I am asking because having this option always there,
> implies to me anyway as a user, that I have missing drivers I need to
> install. Is there any way around having this option when there are not
> missing drivers?
When I talked about this with Frank, we decided to have this menu look
similar to the S10 install menu.
I just booted S10 and see that it says "Apply driver updates", not
"Install missing drivers". I'll update my document with this change. I
think making this change will address your concerns about implying (and
not so subtly :) ) that drivers are missing when they may not be.
To answer your question, though, we could implement something to show
the "Apply Driver Updates" menu selection conditionally. We could
potentially implement the text-mode DDU with a silent mode like we are
planning for the GUI-based DDU. This would scan devices like the DDU
does today, but in the background. The text installer could use this
information to determine whether or not to display the "Apply Driver
Updates" menu item. Not sure if this will take away needed
functionality though; if someone hot-plugged a PCI controller card
while the system was up, a new device could potentially show up after
the scan determined not to show "Apply Driver Updates". I suppose the
user could just reboot...
I think from a user-convenience standpoint, always showing the menu
item, but having it say "Apply Driver Updates" is the best choice. What
do you think?
Thanks,
Jack
>
> thanks,
> sarah
>
>
>
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> The Driver Update Use Case document has been uploaded to:
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Driver_Update/use-case-summary.latest.txt
>>
>>
>>
>> This describes how Driver Update additions would look from a user
>> point of view, for live CD GUI, text installer, and AI.
>>
>> This has already gone through a few iterations with Frank and others,
>> and should be fairly complete, so it should be pretty solid.
>>
>> Please send comments or questions over the next couple of days, if any.
>>
>> I'll be basing the functional spec and the requirements for the DDU
>> team on this document.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jack
>>
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