On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Sarah Jelinek wrote: > I assume you are talking about Solaris installer? If so, I agree. It is > silly to ask so many unnecessary questions and more than once. This is > one of the areas where we can and should reduce the number of questions. > It struck me as well that the other installers don't ask these questions > and don't need to ask them to achieve installation.
Yes, in that case I meant the Solaris interacive installer. > This is something we are thinking about and working on. The flow of > control in our existing GUI, specifically the sysid questions for > installation is clearly broken. We don't need to ask so many questions > for Solaris installation. A lot of it can be gleaned from the existing > system or from the network. True. Or, maybe it would be more beneficial if the system provided more functionality. After the install completes, and before the reboot, you still have a running operating system. What if the installer program provided users with the option of acting as a temporary Jumpstart server to install other systems on a network. That might be a little overkill, but I could see the benefits for a workstation installation project. That's probably outside the scope of this discussion. > > Is it still possible to read a sysidcfg file from floppy? This sounds > > strange, but it's been awhile since I've used hosts/servers with floppy > > disks. > > > You mean with jumpstart install? Yes, you can create a sysidcfg file . Okay. Looking back, I wasn't sure if it was the sysidcfg file, or the rules.ok file, or both perhaps. -------------------- Christopher Josephes cpj1 at visi.com
