On 04/02/2010 15:50, Dave Miner wrote: > On 02/ 4/10 09:15 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: >> Is it possible to boot from the network (rather than usb or local CD) >> and use the Text installer ? Similar to how Solaris 10 and previous >> releases were able to be installed ? >> > > Not at this time. > >> While a non interactive AI install is great for many use cases it was >> often common in SWAN labs to install interactively using the old tty >> based suninstall program. I'm hoping this capability will remain for >> the cases where there is on physical access to the machine to put in a >> CD or USB but AI is not suitable. >> > > Can you elaborate on the cases for which AI is unsuitable for you?
The most common case is where I have to be very careful about which disks are installed onto and I don't want to risk some default AI config on the install server trashing existing content I have on the disks or installing onto a different disk to the one I want. Or I may not have access to change the configs that AI would put down. Or consider that it is orders of magnitude faster for me to just select the disk I want to install onto in the text installer than to login to the AI server and do all the necessary install manifest updates. I'm not expecting to be able to slice up the disk with format(1M) just pick which disk to install onto and to choose the name of the root pool. With the older installer there were many many more questions that needed to be answered and I'm very glad to see the questions asked in the new text installer are greatly reduced in number and complexity. However it would be nice to be able to do the same style of install over the network. -- Darren J Moffat
