Glynn Foster wrote: > > On 9/09/2009, at 12:41 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > >> Glynn Foster wrote: >>> On 5/09/2009, at 11:12 AM, Sue Sohn wrote: >>>> We have posted the design document for the Text Installer at: >>>> >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/TextInstallerProject/design_doc_v1.4.pdf >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Please review and provide comments by COB Tuesday, September 15th. >>> Perhaps this discussion has been had already and I've missed it >>> (apologies if so), but assuming we've got an active network >>> connection, could we automatically probe for system time and date >>> from some NTP server and have the opportunity of skipping a screen? >> >> From what I've seen, even the Mac OS X installer still prompts for >> date and time. But the nice trick that both the newer Windows >> installers and the OS X installer does is that it pre-defaults your >> timezone based on your current 'geographic location' which I'm >> guessing is derived from your current IP address and accessibility to >> a geo-location server of some sort. > > Yeah, I think the point is that they make it their mission to be as > default-ly helpful to you as possible - so I agree that you should > still be able to change your system time and date, I think the > convenience of having it auto-detected wins out for me.
This sounds like a feature that the GUI would use, too. Actually, it sounds like a feature that would be more interesting for the GUI use cases than the Text Install use cases. Would it be better to capture this as an RFE that both GUI and Text Install could make use of? - Keith > > > Glynn > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
