Shawn Walker wrote:
> Frank Ludolph wrote:
>> zhongyuan sun - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China wrote:
>>> Thanks, I think more display screens will be added to the configuration
>>> function like config name service(NIS/DNS....)
>>>   
>> On the GUI side there are no new screens or functionality. The 
>> interactions will only be added to the text-based side which I'm 
>> working on.
>
> Why does the text-based installer need to diverge?  Should not the 
> same reasonings apply (largely) to the text installer as they do to 
> the GUI installer?  That is, do you really want to revisit 
> configuration hell in the install process?
>
> Duplicating functionality already provided by the system, or that 
> really belongs at first boot seems like a dangerous road...
>
The text-based installer is being slanted more toward server 
installations. NWAM will still run when the media is booted, but the 
text-based installer will offer the opportunity to set a static IP 
address. There are no plans to add naming service screens to the text 
installer. The question arose that in the text-based media, if there is 
no DHCP, how will be DDU be able to reach the network to access drivers 
from a repo?

Frank

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