As mentioned at yesterday's meeting there are three alternatives that
could be used for the text-based, install time DDU.
* Single screen nCurses (attached)
o Advantage: Everything visible, like a GUI
o Disadvantage: Kind of ugly, function keys, more difficult to
implement
* A console-based wizard
o Advantage: More familiar to terminal users
o Disadvantage: Lots of reading up the screen
* A DDU CLI
o Advantage: A DDU that can be used from the command line at
any time, even after install.
o Disadvantage: Requires learning the commands
The following are very rough designs to illustrate the above approaches,
not finished designs.
*Single Screen nCurses*
This operates pretty much like the GUI: (see attached
* User selects a device, DDU DB info, if any, is filled into the
input fields below.
* If no DB info, the user types in file pathname or repo URL and
package name.
* F<key> installs, then the driver list is updated.
*
Console-based wizard*
The wizard might go something like this:
(user enters the number of the DDU task in the installation task menu)
The install-time Driver Update Utility is used to install drivers not available
on the
installation media. Drivers can also be installed following installation if
they are
not required by the installer.
The following devices are missing drivers:
1. Audio Intel Corporation 82801DBBBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio
Controller
2. Network Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+Wireless Network Adapter
Enter the number of the device to install its drivers, or 'q' to quit: *1*
A driver is available from www.intel.com/drivers/ICH4. Install? [y, n, q]: *y*
Installing...................Done
The following devices are missing drivers:
1. Network Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+Wireless Network Adapter
Enter the number of the device to install its drivers, or 'q' to quit: *1*
Install from a local file? [y, n, q]: n
Install from a repository? [y, n, q]: y
Known repositories:
1. opensolaris.org/release
2. opensolaris.org/contrib
Enter the number of a known repository or a repository URL: pkgs.atheros.com
Enter the name of the driver package: ar5001x
Installing....................Done
All devices have drivers installed.
*
A DDU CLI*
(user enters the number of the DDU task in the installation task menu)
jack> dduadm
list
install -d devicenum [-f pathname]|[-r repositoryNumOrURL -p packageName]
repos
jack> dduadm list
1. Audio Intel Corporation 82801DBBBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio
Controller
2. Network Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+Wireless Network Adapter
jack> dduadm install -d 2
no driver information available
jack> ddu repos
Known repositories:
1. opensolaris.org/release
2. opensolaris.org/contrib
jack> dduadm install -d 2 -r pkg.atheros.com -p ar5001x
Installing......................Done
jack> dduadm list
1. Audio Intel Corporation 82801DBBBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio
Controller
jack> dduadm install -d 1
Installing......................Done
jack> exit
(returns to the installation task menu)
Comments? (I'll be out of the office tomorrow and will respond on Monday.)
Frank
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