On 6/28/07, Dirk Wetter <spam at drwetter.org> wrote: > > > Brian, > > it's a somewhat shallow report restricted on the usabilty errr.. > description of the installers. It doesn't even address show the installer > copes with certain situations (e.g. going back and forth) or even already > installed systems. NOt to be speak of password quality, enforcements > of it. And so on and so forth...
Please try to keep in mind, that I did not write this article. I just brought it to people's attention because a) it is a walkthrough/howto, (sorta) and b) the writer is not an experienced solaris admin, c) this writer seems to me to represent the median target audience for Indiana and d) he does have some valid points. In particular: 1) Moving language selection to the beginning of the install makes sense. (Especially if the installer is language aware.) 2) Moving the partitioning earlier in the install process, with a freespace checker does save time, in the event that a user miscalculates free space, or does not have access to the drives. (Crashed/bad cable/etc) 3) Modern installers do more than just list total progress. It would be nice to know where in the process the user is, and how much is left in that package. (For GUI installs) (Personally I think this is the best of the nice to haves he mentions.) Overall the reviewer gave it a good review... (Stating that while unfamiliar all Linux users *should* be able to handle an install. --brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20070628/c6de6b02/attachment.html>
