Michael Ramchand wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > >> >> I can neither confirm nor deny your assertions ;) With that said, I >> was just trying to point out that many of the reasons that some people >> might have for needing this sort of scripting are no longer >> applicable. Specifically, when it comes to managing which *Solaris* >> software is installed, there should be no need for scripting. >> > And here's the crux of the matter. You guys are of the mistaken belief > that Jumpstart was used to install Solaris. That part of Jumpstart was > simply the tip of the iceberg and there's a huge and diverse set of > tools that depend on the "hooks" provided by Jumpstart to do all the > little silly things that customer want to do... like installing and > configuring their apps. > > The AI design has not taken this MAJOR component into consideration, and > is fixated on installing Solaris in a new and sexy way. People are > really not interested in JUST the Solaris install.
Actually there has been some thought in this area and this is one of the uses of the distro constructor. Couldn't you just add your own packages and have them installed as part of the image you created? -evan
