On 01/21/10 03:51 PM, Sarah Jelinek wrote: > >>>>> That jives with my thoughts too. >>>>>> This seems to meet most, if not all, of the Requirements and might >>>>>> limit the necessary changes in the applications a bit. >>>>> Can you elaborate ? >>>>> >>>> >>>> If the stream is just a package that gets laid down, there's very >>>> little additional work required in the installers - we already know >>>> how to install packages. The only thing that would seem to be >>>> necessary to add to the installer then is to de-encapsulate the >>>> installed image from the stream package. >>> All true, except that the pool needs to be created before the image can >>> be laid down and hence I was planning on the image providing hints >>> about storage layout. >>> >> >> That seems fine, especially if the hints were in the form of an AI >> manifest (fragment?) ;-) > > That's a good idea. At least for AI. What if we want to support > installation of replication archives via some other installer? >
I'd think it relatively easy to merge their input with an AI manifest. Dave
